BPW Canada's Virtual Club is excited to announce that its first teleconference of 2012 will feature exciting groundbreaking reserach about Canadian women! Our presenters Ann Denis and Jane Stintson have provided the following abstract:
The Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW-ICREF) began 35 years ago, linking community and university feminist researchers whose common goal was gender equity, expressed in the organization’s title as ‘the advancement of women’. CRIAW has been a leader – in the topics it has studied and in the ways it has worked, doing research with not just on women, and bringing together research to help women in the community (including students, local women’s groups, and union members) develop the skills they need in order to make their own (often critical) analyses of women’s situations and develop strategies to promote change. CRIAW continues to be challenged to be a national, bilingual and inclusive organization, which recognizes the complexity and diversity of women’s experiences and tries to integrate this diversity into its work. Although changed over the years, its work remains very relevant.
We will talk about some of the highlights of CRIAW’s work, and its challenges. As a recent example of CRIAW’s work we will conclude by talking about FemNorthNet, a 5 year Community-University Research Alliance (funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) which is working with women in selected Northern communities to examine the impacts on them of current economic restructuring – and how they respond to it.
Speaker's Biographies:
Ann Denis, a retired professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa, has a longstanding interest in feminist research. Her teaching, research and publications have focused on women’s paid and unpaid work (and the impact of globalization on it), ethnic and race relations, women in engineering, the use of the Internet by young people. She is president of CRIAW, in which she is helping to revise Fact Sheets on women’s experiences of racism and on immigrant and refugee women.
Jane Stinson is a past president of CRIAW and is currently Director of CRIAW’s FemNorthNet project. A long time officer and director of research in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), her research and publications have concentrated on the impact of globalization, casualization and privatization on women’s work. Through her work with FemNorthNet she is experiencing first hand the challenges of implementing CRIAW’s participatory and inclusive methodology and the rewards of doing so.
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If you have any questions contact please email csissons1@yahoo.ca
How to Register:
Cost:
BPW Canada members pay $10 per conference
Non-BPW members pay $15 per conference
To ensure that you register for the talks you are interested in please send a cheque to BPW Canada's Virtual Club (indicate the talks you are interested in) c/o Kathy Laing, 302-38 Metropole Private, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 1E9
Cost:
BPW Canada members pay $10 per conference
Non-BPW members pay $15 per conference
To ensure that you register for the talks you are interested in please send a cheque to BPW Canada's Virtual Club (indicate the talks you are interested in) c/o Kathy Laing, 302-38 Metropole Private, Ottawa, Ontario K1Z 1E9
