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The goal of employment equity is to ensure equitable representation in the workforce for aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, racial minorities and women. Employment equity plans are of benefit to these four groups of workers who have faced the most damaging and persistent kinds of discrimination in employment.
Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women is a national voluntary organization with networks in every province and territory. Our mission is to connect educators of adults with women-centred resources related to research, policy, public awareness and practice, and to lead in the development of such resources where gaps exist.
The Centre for Research in Women’s Health is committed to conducting and fostering women’s health research which is relevant to women’s lives, and to promoting its application in diverse communities. The Centre is a partnership of the University of Toronto, Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre.
CLEO is a community legal clinic that produces clear language material for people with low incomes. Main topics include social assistance, landlord and tenant law, refugee and immigration law, workers’ compensation, women’s issues, family law, employment insurance and human rights.
DAWN provides information, speakers and resources to DAWN Ontario members, women’s groups, disability groups, the general public and the public and private sectors. DAWN lobbies the provincial government on issues affecting women with disabilities. Issues such as employment advocacy, training, education, transportation, housing, health care and others.
Our mission is to inform and educate the community about the issue of wife assault/woman abuse in order to decrease the incidence of physical, psychological, emotional and sexual violence against women and the effect that woman abuse has on children. Funding for this Website was generously provided by The Ontario Trillium Foundation. Education Wife Assault is a United Way Member Agency.
The Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF) was created to develop bold, new strategies and programs to advance women’s equality, non-violence, economic development, and, most importantly, empowerment of women and girls in all sectors of society. All programs of the FMF endeavor to include a global perspective and activities to promote leadership development, especially among young women. Along with reproductive rights and access to reproductive technology, the FMF’s programs have focused on the empowerment of women in law, business, medicine, academia, sports, and the Internet. METRAC is a community organization that promotes the rights of women and children to live free from violence and the threats of violence.
Information and resources for immigrants to Ontario. Information on housing, jobs, health coverage, schools etc is available for new immigrants.
Transition houses and second stage houses provide temporary women and their children for periods of a few days to a few weeks and, in some cases, a few months. They provide a supportive environment where a woman can consider and discuss her alternatives. Some houses offer counseling and follow-up to women and children leaving the house.
Transition houses operate in the context of other community services which provide support and assistance to abused women and their children. These other services include provincial and municipal social services, victim advocacy services, community crisis lines and rape crisis lines, women’s support groups, police services, and legal aid services. Transition houses have information about local sources of help.
METRAC is a community organization that promotes the rights of women and children to live free from violence and the threats of violence.
The National Action Committee on the Status of Women is the largest feminist organization in Canada. A coalition of more than 700 member groups, NAC has been fighting for women’s equality for over 29 years.
OWN is a feminist non-profit advocacy organization dealing with issues that are important to the lives of women: housing, economic security, health and family law.
The Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care was founded in 1981 with a mandate to advocate for the development of high quality, non-profit child care services in the province of Ontario. The organization includes representatives from: education, health care, labour, child-welfare, injury prevention, rural, First Nation, Francophone, social policy, anti poverty, professional, student and women’s organizations. In addition, we serve community based child care programs and 15 local coalitions across the province.
The Equal Pay Coalition was formed in 1976 as a coalition of organizations to seek the implementation of equal pay for work of equal value through legislation and collective bargaining.
The Ontario Women’s Directorate is operated by the provincial government as a resource library of educational and informational resources on issues that affect the women of Ontario. Its main priorities are making communities safer and helping women achieve economic independence.
The Ontario Women’s Justice Network is a program of METRAC (Metro Toronto Action Committee on Public Violence Against Women and Children) and is a Toronto based organization that works on advocacy, law reform, lobbying and public education on all issues of violence against women and children at home and abroad.
The Peel Committee Against Woman Abuse is a group of individuals representing various agencies in the region of Peel. This active committee’s mandate is to promote a comprehensive and effective response to woman abuse in the region of Peel.
Shelternet can help to bridge the gap for women seeking shelter on-line and take women quickly to the shelters web site in their area or, if a shelter does not have a site, to information taken from the directory information available from the National Clearinghouse on Family Violence.
Sistering has been supporting homeless, underhoused and low-income women in the Toronto community since 1981.
Status of Women Canada (SWC) is the federal government agency which promotes gender equality, and the full participation of women in the economic, social, cultural and political life of the country. SWC focuses its work in three areas: improving women’s economic autonomy and well-being, eliminating systemic violence against women and children, and advancing women’s human rights.
The Step it Up! campaign across Ontario is demanding government “Step Up Action” to end violence against women. The Campaign has a list of “10 Steps to End Violence Against Women. Ten steps that must be put in place if women are to be freed from the current epidemic of violence against them.
TRCC/MWAR is a grassroots, women-run collective working towards a violence-free world by providing anti-oppressive, feminist peer support to survivors of sexual violence through support, education and activism.
Women & Environments International Magazine is a unique Canadian journal which examines women’s multiple relations to their environments - natural, built and social - from feminist perspectives. Since 1976 it has provided a forum for academic research and theory, professional practice and community experience.
WRED is a federally incorporated charitable organization dedicated to enhancing the sustainability of rural Ontario communities. The organization promotes economic opportunity through equitable local control and ownership by providing programs that enhance business development, life skills, networking, access to capital, access to information, access to markets, business diversification including agriculture, and awareness of rural community economic development. In all activities, WRED ensures women’s participation, builds local leadership capacity, offers rural perspective and seeks to build partnership alliances.
An information source for women’s health issues, developed by Sunnybrook and Women’s College Health Sciences Centre and the Centre for research in Women’s Health.
