Yukon

We have been meeting monthly, decided to work on a project, a resource book on non-traditional employment. The groups we are trying to reach are junior high school students and school counselors. Developing a project we can work on locally is a real incentive and assists in increasing our membership as new people express interest in working on the project.

CCLOW member Janeane MacGillivray will be going to Russia for three weeks, in April as the only Canadian delegate on an American tradeswomen group tour. Pam Evans has been appointed an insured persons' representative on the CEIC Board of Referees for Whitehorse and was re-elected in September as an executive "member at large" of the Yukon Status of Women.

Alberta

The major activity of CCLOW in Alberta remains the Women's Education Research Project. The following is from a report by Christine Kulyk, one of the researchers on the Project which appeared in the newsletter of Every woman's Place, the Edmonton women's centre:

The project is studying learning opportunities for women in Alberta. We want to find out what opportunities do exist, both within educational institutions at all levels, and in less formal settings. We also want to document some of the historical changes in education in this province, and we especially want to know what changes need to be made in the present system to give women a more equal chance to use the existing opportunities, and to create new opportunities.

We are also looking at employment opportunities and career counseling available, to see where these do or don't meet women's needs, and to see how employment does or doesn't relate to women's educational background. The project began in August, and will continue until May, when the term of our funding expires. However, we are investigating other sources of funding so that the project may continue beyond May, in some form. By the end of the project, we will have a written report, with a summary of our findings and a set of recommendations. This report will be made available to the general public.