Canadian Committee on Learning opportunities for Women (CCLOW)
Organization profile published 1983

Year Published:  1983  
Resource Type:  Organization
Cx Number:  CX2726
Inactive/Defunct Organization
Abstract:  CLLOW is a national voluntary organization, formed in 1972 for the purpose of improving opportunities for women in Canada. Such opportunities are broadly defined as "any experience designed for women, formal or informal, which promotes their advancement intellectually, emotionally, socially, politically, and which enables their full participation in Canadian life on terms which they themselves participate in determining.

CCLOW brings together in local, regional, and national networks members of community groups, unions, colleges, universities, YWCA's, Status of Women committees, women's bureaus and a variety of other organizations, for the purpose of information exchange, support and collective action.

CCLOW identifies gaps in services and unmet needs in the current provision of adult education programs as they affect women. It encourages and supports the extension of learning and training opportunities for disadvantaged women. It lobbies institutions and grovernments for changes in those policies and practices which set barriers for women attempting to obtain access to educational opportunities and publicize innovative programs, has developed self-training kits as part of a learning model designed for its members, hosts and annual congress and issues a newsletter.

This organization no longer exists.
This abstract was published in the Connexions Digest in 1983.