Despite the economic gains made by women in Canada over the last 50 years, the economic inequality they continue to experience remains significant. CWS/cf's Spring 2004 issue is thus committed to an exploration of women's paid and unpaid labour in the context of globalization and economic restructuring.

The focus of this issue will be a critical exploration of the changing nature of the Canadian labour market which has undermined the position of many women in full-time work and resulted in a significant rise in the number of women working in part-time, temporary work, short-term, contract work, home-based work, self-employment.

Benefits which are inadequate even for full-time workers are often not accessible to these workers. The goal of this issue is to increase awareness and understanding of the various policy and program options and mechanisms that would improve access to benefits for women working full-time and in these kinds of non-standard work arrangements, as well as for women's unpaid work in the household and as caregivers. We welcome articles analyzing structural changes and policy issues, articles reporting on women's experience/knowledge of the consequences of these changes and policies, and articles on women's activism around these issues.

Possible topics include:

• Systemic barriers to women's economic equality;
• The restructuring of women's work: from full-time union to part-time contract;
• How union women are doing economically versus non-organized labour;
• Women's work and organizational change;
• Women's economic equity as a basic human right;
• Women's unpaid work: housework, childcare, helping in family businesses, farm work, etc.
• Pension reform and its impact on women;
• Women in shelters and homeless women: social welfare benefits;
• Women in small business, entrepreneurial women and self-employment;
• Domestic workers and caregivers' rights
• Issues for farm women, First Nations women, women with disabilities, fishers and women in rural communities
• Issues for older women and youth
• Workfare ­ learnfare
• Women working for small employers
• Impacts on women of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Agreements
• Self-employment
• Employment Insurance changes
• Agency work
• Access to social assistance
• Unequal access to adequately paid maternity leave
• Women's activist responses

Your ideas for additional topics are welcome.

Invited are essays, research reports, true stories, poetry, drawings, and other artwork which illuminate these issues.

Deadline Extended to March 31, 2004

Luciana Ricciutelli
Editor-in-Chief
Inanna Publications and Education Inc.,
operating as Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme
212 Founders College
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Tel: 416.736.5356
Fax: 416.736-5765
Email: luciana@yorku.ca

Visit our website at:
www.yorku.ca/cwscf

Articles should be typed, double-spaced, and a maximum of 12 pages long (3000 words). A short (50-word) abstract of the article and a brief biographical note must accompany each submission. If your manuscript has been word-processed, please include a 3.5" disk copy. We give preference to previously unpublished material. If possible, please submit graphics or photographs to accompany your article. Please note CWS/cf reserves the right to edit manu-scripts with respect to length and clarity, and in conformity with our house-style. To encourage use of the material published, CWS/cf has granted electronic rights to Micromedia Ltd. and Information Access (Canadian Periodical Index). Any royalties received will be used by CWS/cf to assist the publication in disseminating its message.

Write or call as soon as possible indicating your intention to submit your work.

Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme
212 Founders, York University, 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Telephone: (416) 736-5356 Fax: (416) 736-5765
E-mail: cwscf@yorku.ca

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