ALL WOMEN HAVE THE
RIGHT TO:
- freedom of choice of lifestyle, employment, and education as
full and equal participants in Canadian society.
- access to post-secondary education.
- employment and the right to equal opportunity to employment
with equal pay for work of equal value.
- access to quality, full government subsidized child-care,
provided by adequately trained and paid childcare workers since access to
education is limited by a lack thereof.
- a financial student's assistance program which meets the
needs of full-time, part-time students and single parents, the majority of whom
are women, and which does not require dependence on their parents or
spouse.
- concrete programs for re-entry of women into post-secondary
education to aid women in overcoming the barriers of interrupted studies and
inadequate back-grounds
- academic counseling which informs women of all educational
and employment opportunities available in order to actively combat streaming of
women in to traditional fields.
- Organize as women since women's organizations within the
student movement are necessary to actively raise the issues faced by women
students, to provide a place for women to develop organizational and political
skills and to provide a forum where women can develop a sense of a unity and
co-operation.
- a student organization which recognizes, promotes and funds a
women's organization on campus which facilitates involvement in women's
issues.
- An education through non-sexist instruction, textbooks and
materials, recognizing that some literature and materials must be viewed
relative to their historical or social context but that all instruction,
contemporary textbooks and materials should be free of sexual stereotyping and
discrimination.
- an educational environment free of advertisements,
entertainment programming and/or materials which promote violence against
women, sexual stereotyping and/or discrimination.
- government funded women's studies courses in post-secondary
educational institutions
- access to safe reliable birth control and family planning
information and the right of choice in the method.
- freedom of choice in the matter of abortion.
- access to quality health services and counseling which meet
the needs of women students and respect a woman's control of her body
- freedom of expression of sexual orientation.
- freedom from sexual assault and all other forms of
violence.
- an educational environment free of sexual harassment.
- effective legal and academic grievance procedures recognized
by students, faculty, and support staff.
- celebrate International Women's Day on campus.
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