The fonds consists of material collected by Helen J. Breslauer through her activities the various Status of Women committees of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA), the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT), and the Ontario New Democratic Party, as well as research material and ephemera related to various women's issues.
This series consists of documents from Helen Breslauer's work as Senior Research Officer at OCUFA and her later work as a consultant on women's issues in education through her firm Helen J. Breslauer & Associates. The main topics are the status of women in higher education, employment equity and affirmative action, and harassment and violence policies. There is also a considerable body of literature covering backlash against feminism and affirmative action policies, as well as documents covering broader issues of poverty and representation of women in Canada and around the world. The documents include many reports, policy guides and proposals, scholarly articles, memos, and newspaper articles, among other types of documents. Most pamphlets and other ephemera related to these topics can be found in the Ephemera series (S7).
The file contains correspondence, statistical tables, a CAUT (Canadian Association of University Teachers) newsletter and a summary of presentations from the workshop.
The file contains two documents on employment equity for women at the University of Windsor: “Procedures for Achieveing Employment Equity” and “University of Windsor Positive Action Strategy for Women” [flowchart].
The file consists mainly of documents regarding employment equity and the status of women at York University, as well as some documents on faculty employment in general. The documents are entitled as follows: “Retirement rules uneven at schools” by Louise Brown [Toronto Star], “Erosion of an Ideal: the ‘presence’ of part-time faculty” by Barbara Warme and Katherina Lundy, York University Employment Equity policies, “Faculty Affirmative Action Plan” by Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, a letter from York University law professor Mary Jane Mossman to Helen J. Breslauer with a copy of Osgoode Hall Law School Faculty Council Minutes, “Woman for all seasons” by Peter Small [Toronto Star], “Women and Men at York: A Gender Analysis of the University’s 1991 Undergraduate Survey” by William Found and Sheila De Cuyper, “Sex discrimination complaint at York resolved” [OCUFA Forum], “Affirmative Action for Women: Final Report of the Joint Study Committee” by Ellen Baar, William Farr, Meg Luxton, Mary Jane Mossman, Mark Webber and Page Westcott, “Report of the Joint Implementation Committee on Affirmative Action for Women Faculty” by Allen Baar, Robert Drummond, John Fox, Esther Greenglass, Ellen Hoffman and Joan Stewart, “Affirmative Action for Women Faculty at York,” and “Sample Affirmative Action Plan for a Fictitious Department of Social Science, Faculty of Arts, York University” by Helen J. Breslauer.
The file consists of documents related to pay and employment equity for women faculty in Canadian universities. The documents are entitled as follows: “The effect of a difference of $2000.00 in starting salary over time,” “Universities are not the most satisfying places for women to work in” by Norma V. Bowen, 2 editions of The Daily, an online Statistics Canada publication, on full-time university faculty, “Median Salaries of Full-time University Teachers by Field, Staff Functions, Highest Earned Degree, Rank and Sex” by Statistics Canada [from “Teachers in universities”], “Salaries of teachers in degree-granting institutions Part I” by Statistics Canada, and “Qualifications and age of teachers in degree-granting institutions” by Statistics Canada.
The file consists of a blank mail exit interview form from the University of Victoria and a letter from University of Victoria Director of Equity Issues Linda Sproule-Jones to Helen Breslauer regarding the form.
The file consists of a blank employment equity form used to track the number, salaries and new hires of different employment equity groups. The origin of the form is unclear, but may be related to the Federal Contractors Program.
