The Northern Woman, Vol 3 No 4

Vol. 3, No. 4 (1977)
Title: The Northern Woman Journal

Topics include:
Working Women’s Conference
Equal credit opportunities
Women’s Credit Union
Letters to the editor
Woman of the Year Maria (Kenora Business & Professional Women)
Lorraine Smith (Ear Falls) elected for Ontario Status of Women Council
Class-action lawsuit against NYPD by abused wives to whom they refused assistance
Poetry
Metro Toronto Women’s Credit Union
Women & the law/Sexism in law
Family property law
Returning to work after raising children
Housewive’s Workshop @ Working Women’s Conference
Women as “cheap labour” in the formal market
Housewives not receiving pension
Keeping women out of paid labour
Systemic underpayment of women
Lack of protection for low-paying jobs
Job discrimination as a political problem
Women’s Decade Council Atikokan
Division of Matrimonial Property (Bill 140 - Family Assets System)
Greater need for crisis homes
Women’s welfare
Women’s economic dependence on men
Housing for Indigenous women & their children
Rape testimonal
Rape & sexual assault centre
Mental & physical cruelty/abuse

Authors/Contributors:
Elizabeth Janeway
Nora Rodd (Toronto, letter to the editor)
Ruby Roulston (Abbotsford, BC., letter to the editor)
Chris Torre (Webequie, ON, letter to the editor)
Judi Gough (Sault Ste. Marie, ON, letter to the editor)
Rosemary Shuhlawry (Thunder Bay, ON, letter to the editor)
Jane S. (letter to the editor)
Kate (Thunder Bay, ON, letter to the editor)
Eve Merriam
J. Pierre
Colleen Aube
Gert Beadle
Marge Piercy
Deirdre Hamill
Sheila DesChenes
Janet Craig-James
Lillian E. Turner
Florence Richard
Colleen Price
Lucy Rissanen
Julie Stojko

Northern Woman Journal Collective

1977

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