GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED

Education and Training:

According to the Oxford Dictionary (1), education and training are interchangeable terms each meaning to provide teaching - that is, instruction and practice meant to impart knowledge or skill, with the goal of improving individual efficiency.

Learning:

If education and training mean the provision of instruction and practice, then learning is the hoped-for result. Learning is the internalized acquisition of skills and knowledge. Learning takes place in a variety of ways and across the total life span of any individual. It is also very important to recognize that, while training may make learning easier, it cannot create or ensure learning. Only the individual learner can do that.

Work:

Work is purposeful effort. From a research point of view, such a broad definition poses some difficulties. However, any study addressing issues related to women and work must recognize the inadequacies of purely economic definitions which equate work with the generation of marketable products or services. Definitions of work which limit themselves to paid employment leave out most work done by women on a world-wide basis and also imply that it is possible to attach a financial value to all work. In Canada today, the average workday for many women includes not only some combination of unpaid domestic labour and paid employment, but also time spent in child care, volunteer work, and training and education.

Economic Equality:

"Equality is both a goal and a means whereby individuals are accorded equal treatment under the law and equal opportunities to enjoy their rights and to develop their potential talents and skills so that they can participate in national political, economic, social and cultural development and can benefit from its results. For women in particular, equality means the realization of rights that have been denied as a result of cultural, institutional, behavioral and attitudinal discrimination" (2).

Economic equality then, refers to equal treatment equal pay for work of equal value, for example and equal opportunity.