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Women Sugar Workers

Series consists of material pertaining to ICCSASW’s special program focused on women sugar workers. This work was undertaken with the help of an intern between 1987 and 1991. In the case of intern, Joan Atlin, this was made possible by a Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) Award for Canadians and consisted of networking, seminars, exchanges of visits and publications. Files include correspondence, research, reports and notes.

2016-044/008(18) · File · 1987-1990
Part of Barbara Rahder fonds

File pertains to Rahder's role as Social Issues Coordinator for Women Plan Toronto and the group's role as intervenors in opposition to the City of Toronto's plan to bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics. Records in the file include a report written by Rahder with Brenda Farge entitled "How women lose at the Games: an Olympic intervenor report for Women Plan Toronto" (Jan. 1990), a summary of this report, and newspaper, magazine and journal articles about the impact of the Olympic Games.

2014-034 / 002 · File · [198-?]
Part of Janice Newton fonds

File consists of manuscript and typescript index cards written by Janice Newton in the course of her research. Index cards contain biographical information on individuals--primarily women--on the political left.

2014-034 / 001 · File · [198-?]
Part of Janice Newton fonds

File consists of manuscript and typescript index cards written by Janice Newton in the course of her research. Index cards contain biographical information on individuals--primarily women--on the political left.

Women of Distinction
2021-008/014(05) · Item · 2002
Part of Barbara Turnbull fonds

Item consists of a VHS recording of the YMCA of Greater Toronto Women of Distinction award ceremony, which honoured and featured Barbara Turnbull recognizing her work in social action.

Women Moving Forward
2022-031/006(04) · File · 2011-2014
Part of Wanda MacNevin collection

File consists of an information booklet, a programming toolkit and a feasibility study related to Women Moving Forward, an initiative of the Jane/Finch Centre. The information booklet includes a breakdown of the "milestones" that participants reach through the course of the program and testimonials from past participants.The programming toolkit includes guidelines and templates for staff usage. The 2014 feasibilty study assesses the potential of the Women Moving Forward program to continue to attract funding.

2016-044/ 008(10) · File · [ca. 1988]
Part of Barbara Rahder fonds

File consists of a document detailing WITCH's unifying principle and organizational objectives, a list of WITCH sponsored events and programs, and a photocopy of an article by Jo Freeman entitled "The tyranny of structurelessness".

2012-037/018(02) · File · 1985-1986
Part of Inez Elliston fonds

File consists of reports, article clippings and depositions related to women’s labour and women in the workforce. It includes presentation papers from the Manitoba Women’s Agenda Conference, the Conference on the Urgency for True Security: Women’s Alternatives for Negotiating Peace, and an article on women in development.

2023-006/004(06) · File · 1968-1972
Part of Ellie Prepas fonds

File consists of newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, meeting agendas, pamphlets, posters, activity reports, newsletters, workshop topics, and proposals relating to women in the workforce and in politics. File also includes the New Democratic Party of Ontario’s 1970 Resolution on ‘The Liberation of Women,’ the Canadian Labour Congress’ Social and Community Programs Department’s fact sheets on ‘Women in the Work Force,’ and how to align the women’s movement with the issues of other left-wing groups. File also includes papers and correspondence relating to a series of Waffle Women’s Conferences held across Southern Ontario, which covered socialist strategies to organize women in the workplace to fight for equal pay for equal work, how to canvas and win elections in major Canadian ridings, and Rozzi Doctorow and Diane Mossman’s Waffle conference paper ‘A Socalist Strategy for Women’s Liberation.’ One letter by Julie Bass, Susan Kent and Ellie Prepas describes a rift between the three women and Donna McCoombs and Roz Doctorow, two of the organizers for the St. Catherines, Ontario conference. File also includes includes the ‘Submission by the Canadian Labour Congress to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women’ (1968) and Waffle Women’s responses to the Commission’s findings.

Women as volunteers
2014-011/001(07) · File · 2003
Part of Inez Elliston fonds

File consists of a final copy of Elliston’s research project, Women as Volunteers for the Delta Kappa Gamma Society.

1996-022/017(14) · File · 1983
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File pertains to meetings of the Women and Words Ontario planning committee in 1983 and Scheier's participation as a committee member. Records in this file include Scheier's meeting and speaking notes, meeting agendas and minutes, reports and correspondence.

1996-022/017(11) · File · 1984
Part of Libby Scheier fonds

File consists of drafts of two essays by Scheier, entitled "Creativity and Motherhood" and "Motherhood is Not the End of Everything", as well as a correspondence exchanged with Betsy Warland, draft speaking notes for a workshop presentation by Scheier on creativity and childbearing/childrearing,and a paper entitled "The Power Politics of Motherhood: a feminist critique of theory and practice" by Helen Levine and Alma Estable.