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Women's Bureau Bulletin, No. IX

File consists of an issue of the Women's Bureau Bulletin (No. IX, July 1963), issued by the Department of Labour of Canada, titled, "Opportunities for Continuing Education: A Second Chance for Women."

Women, social justice, and Canadian trade unions collection

  • F0494
  • Collection
  • 1973-2006

Collection consists of publications, policy statements, research reports, conference and educational documents, and newsletters accumulated by Professor Linda Briskin in the course of her research on women and equity in organized labour in Canada. The documents were published by or about local, provincial, and national organizations, including the Canadian Labour Congress, provincial federations of labour, Canadian and United Auto Workers, Canadian Air Line Employees' Association, Canada Employment Immigration Union, the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, the Committee for Cleaners' Rights, International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Metro Labour Council, Union of Provincial Government Employees, Canadian Union of Public Employees, Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, Public Service Alliance of Canada, United Steelworkers of Canada, Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, and the Windsor Hospital Clerical Workers Union of Canada. The collection deals with equity in collective bargaining units, including issues of sisterhood and solidarity, education, human rights, anti-racism, aboriginal issues, affirmative action, violence against women, and the impact of technological change.

Briskin, Linda

Women, education, post-secondary

File consists of three submissions to the Commission on Post-Secondary Education: a submission titled, "Women in Higher Education," written by the Group for Equal Rights at McMaster, 25 February 1972; a brief titled, "Women in Post-Secondary Education," submitted by the Ontario Committee on the Status of Women; and a brief titled "Women in Post Secondary Education: An Approach to Improved Participation," by Lynn McDonald, Department of Sociology, McMaster University, 1 September 1971.

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.

Women Plan Toronto : Olympic intervenor project

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.

Women on the left, ca. 1892 - 1920 : L - Z

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 on the left, ca. 1892 - 1920 : A - K

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

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

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.

Women in Toronto Creating Housing (WITCH)

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".

Women in the labour force: miscellaneous resources

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.

Women in politics, Working Women

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.

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