Saskatchewan

During the last few months, CCLOW in Saskatchewan has been concerned with two main projects. Members are currently preparing a brief for the Education Ministers Conference to be held in Toronto, on October 19th - 22nd. Lenore Rogers and Sue Smee plan to meet with the Saskatchewan Education Minister to go over the brief. The paper covers five main areas: child care, funding, counselling services, social attitudes and sexual stereotyping. Those working on the brief have also covered the National Training Act and sources of funding for women's education.

The second main focus in Saskatchewan is the planning around the November "Women and the Computer Age, the Future is Now" conference cosponsored by CCLOW and a variety of other groups. The objective is to provide a forum for Sask. women to explore and analyze the impact of the technological revolution on their lives in order to develop strategies for the protection and benefit of women. The main theme areas are employment, education, health and safety, training and retraining, information privacy and access, legislation and control, union contract language and alternative models of working conditions. For more information, see Upcoming and Current.

Manitoba

On May 8th, CCLOW in Manitoba sponsored a workshop on Women and Microtechnology with Heather Menzies as the keynote speaker. Response was tremendous with women attending from a variety of women's organizations. Many new members were recruited. In June, Martha Colquhoun, Manitoba Director of CCLOW, represented CCLOW in Ottawa at a meeting with women's groups sponsored by the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women.