The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women

Requests to Establish – 1952

  • RESET

Category:

EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS

Sub-Category:

WOMEN’S BUREAU

Resolution Number:

300.80.2

Club:

Toronto

Province:

Ontario

Year:

1952

Status:

Resolved

Background:

Comments:

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT BPW Canada urges the federal Department of Labour to expand its services to provide additional facilities for the study and analysis of: 1. Earnings, hours and conditions of employment of women workers; trends in women’s employment; supply and demand for women workers; training needs of women workers; job outlook for women in new occupations; effects of increasing mechanization of the employment of women; 2. Legislation as it affects women workers and their civil and political status; 3. Problems affecting women who are self-supporting, who are workers and home-makers, who are in special groups–older women, married women. Also, to provide facilities to make findings of such studies available to interested persons or groups.

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Article ID: 15594