Susan Stewart Fred Peter

The research revealed a variety of barriers preventing women from expanding their career options. For instance, the eligibility criteria for the Re-entry Program, which requires that a woman must have been out of the paid labour force for three years, excludes some of the best candidates and women most in need of training. Underemployed and sporadically employed women do not qualify, a group which includes many immigrant women.

The inadequacy of training allowances is a problem for many women. While CCLOW applauds the increases under Minister of Employment and Immigration Flora MacDonald, allowances are still too low for either a single person or a single parent.

Many students have experienced long delays in receiving training allowances. These delays are especially difficult for single-parents on social assistance since their cheques are discontinued at the beginning of the course.

A complete summary of the barriers is included in the final chapter of the report along with recommendations to various government departments, CEIC and school districts, an ways to improve women's access to male dominated occupations.

Also included is a critique of the Job Entry/Re-entry Program.

A limited number of copies of the full report are available. Photocopies of the section dealing with the management training program or the critique are available for $1.00 to cover postage and handling from Linda Roberts, Women's Employment Outreach, 5194 Blowers Street, 2nd Floor, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 1J4.

LISTENING TO LEARN

by L. Burge, M. Norquay & J. Roberts

This is an indispensable manual for anyone who uses audio conferencing in education, government, business, voluntary and professional associations, industry and commerce. The manual integrates practical information on voicing, scriptwriting, program planning, and salient issues for leaders, course designers and tutors. A demonstration audio tape is included. The authors are distance educators experienced in the use of radio and audio. For more information contact: Instructional Resources Development Unit, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 252 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1VS.

Six Art Posters Exploring Labour Issues

Health and Safety, Immigrant Workers' Rights, Technological Change, The Right to Organize, Peace and Equal Rights for Immigrant Workers are the themes of six posters published by the Vancouver Centennial Labour Committee. The artists, chosen through a competition held in the summer of 1986, are Billie Carroll, Craig Condy-Berggold, Ken Hughes, Carel Moiseiwitsch, Fred Peter and Susan Stewart.

Curator Sara Diamond says of the series: "We wanted to create a link between the labour movement and artists. After all artists work for a living and face many of the same issues that other professions do and working people need a sense of their own culture. We consciously chose artists who approached the graphic art medium in very different ways, while being technically top calibre. We wanted an eclectic sense of style." The organizers hope that the spirit of Centennial Year collaboration expressed among historians, artists and unionists will continue into the future.

The series was financed through the assistance of the Vancouver Centennial Commission, Labour Canada and the B.C. Government Employees Union. Artists' fees were paid by individual unions. Posters are being sold as a set or individually. Order through the Vancouver and District Labour Council, Suite 206,33 East 8th Avenue, Vancouver. Telephone Sara Diamond, (604)254-5210.