"You learned how to read and write.
What else do you want?"

CCLOW investigates, supports, and promotes what else women want from their education, including the right to learn to read and write.

in literacy

• CCLOW has published the results of a three year research study on women and literacy programs: The power of woman-positive literacy work, Women in literacy speak, and Listen to women in literacy.
  
  
• CCLOW collaborated with sister organizations to produce a document on education and literacy for the 1995 UN World Conference on Women.
  
  
• in 1996, CCLOW will produce a resource book entitled Making Connections: literacy and ESL materials from a feminist perspective, a collaborative effort from fifteen diverse women from across Canada.

in educational equity

• CCLOW continues ground-breaking work in the area of violence and its effect on learning and education. In 1995 we produced Isolating the Barriers and Strategies for Prevention: a kit about violence and women's education for adult learners and adult educators and Making Change: Raising awareness about violence as a barrier to women's education.
  
  
• every year CCLOW awards twelve $500 scholarships to women across Canada upgrading their high school education. Funds are raised in our annual celebrity book auction.
  
  
• CCLOW networks in the provinces and territories support women's pursuit of education. CCLOW-B.C. produced The Back-to-School Survival Guide, CCLOW-Manitoba distributed The Woman's Guide to University Resources, CCLOW- Yukon annually awards the Julie Cruikshank Bursary to a woman returning to learning.

coalition partnerships

• CCLOW is collaborating with nine other women's groups to develop models of collective fund-raising and has published a comprehensive report entitled Sharing Resources.
  
  
• CCLOW sent two representatives to the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, and will follow up with information and analyses on the outcomes of the conference.

AND... CCLOW publishes Women's Education des femmes, an alternative, informative, insightful and provocative magazine about women's learning and education.

Are YOU a member? (see inside back cover for membership information)

CCLOW: A national voice for women's
education and training in Canada

¹ "Education Behind the Veil: Women in Afghanistan,"
by Sharifa Sharif, WEdf, vol.11, no.2, pp.4-9.