| 1980 |
CCLOW and Mount St. Vincent
University co-sponsoredThe Education Connection, a national conference
held in Halifax |
| 1981
|
CCLOW incorporated as a
national, non-profit organization with the following objects:
- to
promote learning opportunities for Canadian women to improve their political,
economic and social status;
- to
receive, acquire and hold gifts, donations, legacies and devises;
- to do
all such other things which in the opinion of the Board of Directors are
incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above objects.
|
|
CCLOW elected its first Board of
Directors |
|
Susan McCrae Vander Voet was
hired as Executive Director |
|
CCLOW moved to new office at 692
Coxwell Avenue, Toronto. |
| 1982 |
CCLOW acquired charitable
status |
|
National conference on Women
and the Impact of Micro-technology was co-sponsored by CCLOW and three
other national women's organizations |
|
First issue of Women's
Education des femmes published in newsletter format |
| 1983 |
CCLOW presented brief on Paid Skills
Development Leave, prepared by Jane Adams and entitled First Things First:
Equity for women through paid skills development leave |
|
Women's Learning Resource Centre
started |
| 1984 |
National conference, Educating
for change: Women in the next decade held in Toronto |
|
CCLOW published second study on
literacy, Women and adult basic education in Canada: An exploratory
study, written by Paula DeCoito |
|
CCLOW-Saskatchewan released study
on the National Training Act, submitting conclusions and recommendations to the
Canadian Employment and Immigration Commission |
|
CCLOW-Yukon produced resource
booklet on women and non-traditional occupations |
|
CCLOW moves to larger office at 47
Main Street, Toronto |
| 1985 |
CCLOW launched a project on the UN
Decade for Women, sent Past-President Lisa Avedon to Forum '85 |
|
CCLOW President, Joan Brown-Hicks,
attended World Assembly of ICAE (International Council for Adult
Education) |
|
Bridging Program for Women
launched in Regina by CCLOW-Saskatchewan as the national demonstration project
for women's bridging programs |
|
Women's Education des
femmes transformed into a magazine |
in collaboration with CCLOW