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1968-1972 (Creation)
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1 folder of textual records
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File consists of newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, meeting agendas, pamphlets, posters, activity reports, newsletters, workshop topics, and proposals relating to women in the workforce and in politics. File also includes the New Democratic Party of Ontario’s 1970 Resolution on ‘The Liberation of Women,’ the Canadian Labour Congress’ Social and Community Programs Department’s fact sheets on ‘Women in the Work Force,’ and how to align the women’s movement with the issues of other left-wing groups. File also includes papers and correspondence relating to a series of Waffle Women’s Conferences held across Southern Ontario, which covered socialist strategies to organize women in the workplace to fight for equal pay for equal work, how to canvas and win elections in major Canadian ridings, and Rozzi Doctorow and Diane Mossman’s Waffle conference paper ‘A Socalist Strategy for Women’s Liberation.’ One letter by Julie Bass, Susan Kent and Ellie Prepas describes a rift between the three women and Donna McCoombs and Roz Doctorow, two of the organizers for the St. Catherines, Ontario conference. File also includes includes the ‘Submission by the Canadian Labour Congress to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women’ (1968) and Waffle Women’s responses to the Commission’s findings.