- CA ON0034 10-126
- Fonds
- 1992-2014
Freeman, Barbara M.
Freeman, Barbara M.
Gellman, Steven
Mary Bishop
Women's Employment Centre (WEC) fonds
Women's Employment Centre (WEC)
The Lois Bédard fonds reflects Bédard’s advocacy for women’s rights, as well as her professional involvement in the women’s union organization, Organized Working Women. The fonds focusses on administrative records from Organized Working Women, including Lois Bédard’s correspondence and executive reports from her time serving on the organization executive council in the early 1980s, until her resignation as president, in 1986.
The fonds reflects Lois Bédard’s efforts to lobby government and organizations to promote women’s equality. The fonds includes briefs, petitions, letters to government, and notices promoting equal pay for work of equal value, as well as women's reproductive rights, and their right to universal day care.
Bédard, Lois
Desjardins, Lucie
Cameron, Barbara
Sylvia Spring
Women's World Congress / Caroline Andrew fonds
The fonds consists of records related mainly to the organization and planning of the 2011 Women's World Congress held at the University of Ottawa, co-chaired by Professor Caroline Andrew. Records relate to funding and financial support, financial auditing, and planning and include meeting minutes, reports, correspondence etc. Included also are handouts from the congress, final reports and summary documents from after the congress was held. The fonds also contains some records related to prior and subsequent Women's World Congresses.
The Women’s Worlds congress was the first world-wide interdisciplinary gathering to focus on research pertaining to women’s issues and started in 1981. WW takes place every three years in a different part of the world.
Andrew, Caroline
Women's Studies Program Fonds / Fonds Programme d'études des femmes
Women's Studies Program, University of Ottawa / Progamme en Études des femmes, Université d'Ottawa