WOMEN'S EDUCATION DES FEMME, is a feminist connection to the world of learning and education, is published quarterly by the Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women, a national non- profit organization that promotes feminist education and the powerment of women.

Editorial Board
Donna Marion (Chair) Cathy Bray Anne Minguet-Patocka Anne-Marie Pharand Catherine Moore Mieke Nyenhuis Shauna Butterwick

Editing and Production
Christina Starr

Poetry Editor
Leona Gom

Humour Editor
Donna Marion

Translation
Anne Minguet-Patocka

Word Processing
Paulette Clarke

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Delta Web Graphics

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Women's EDUCATION des femmes

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

First on the list, Marcia Braundy deserves a very big thank you for her hard work, patience, enthusiasm and humour in serving as this issue's guest editor.

Marcia rounded up some first rate contributors who all together have made this a valuable and informative issue of the magazine. Thanks to: Louise Boivin, Wendy Burton, Joan Conway, Ravida Din, Sue Findlay, Cynthia Creelman Hill, Simmy Hyman, Lesley Lee, Linda Mcdonald, Judy Rebick, Cecilia Reynolds, Chandra Russell, Patti Schorn-Moffat and Kathryn Woodcock Webb. Appreciation for the poetry goes to Eunice Brooks and Chris Wind; for the cartoon to Noreen Stevens.

We gratefully acknowledge the financial contribution of the Women's Bureau, Labour Canada, and the Women's Program, Secretary of State.

SUBMISSIONS

WEdf invites all readers to submit articles, ideas, poetry, humour in all forms, commentary, reviews and resources. Please send submissions care of the Editor, WEdf, 47 Main Street, Toronto, Ontario, M4E 2V6. Material should be non-sexist, non-racist and about women written with a feminist perspective. Submitters who wish their material returned should include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Writer's Guide- lines are available.

ARTICLE COPIES

If you would like to have a copy of any article in WEdf, CCLOW will be pleased to provide it for you, at $.10/page plus postage costs. Please phone or mail your request to CCLOW.

THE GUEST EDITOR

Marcia Braundy is a university educated journey woman carpenter and in 1980 was the first woman in the construction sector of the B.C. Carpenters' Union. She has instructed Women In Trades and Technology courses at colleges in B.C., and her curriculum guide and resource book, Orientation to Trades and Technology with a Special Emphasis on the Needs of Women, was published in that province in 1988. Marcia sits on the Federal Advisory Committee to the President of the Treasury Board on Employment Equity for Women in the Public Service.

She organized "A Canadian Conference on Women in Trades and Technology" last year, and was managing editor on the publication of the proceedings, Surviving and Thriving-Women in Trades & Technology and Employment Equity, currently available from Kooney WITT, Winlaw, B.C.



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