C3-Wednesday, November 19, 1980 - North Shore News

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NIGHT SCHOOL NOTES

By LOIS LIGHT

To some of you it may not
be a cause for dancing in the
streets to know that
Christmas is less than six
weeks away. Now, / happen
to think that is a cause for
celebration — that, indeed,
‘tis the season to be jolly. to
deck the halls, and all that
kind of thing. I feel sad that
many see nothing but strain
and avariciousness ahead for
the season that can and
should be mostly joy.

While some of us with a

OTTAWA (UPC) -
Treasury Board President
Don Johnston has denied the
charges of a leading women's
group that it will take
women another 66 years to
become full equals in the
public service.

Johnston, responding to a
report from the Advisory
Council on the Status of
Women, told the Commons
last week that the govern-
ment was attempting to
ensure that women carn
equal pay for equal work
through affirmative action
programs.

“We're taking initiatives
on all fronts and I'm sure it
won't be 66 years before we
see very major changes in
terms of representation of
women in the public ser-
vice.” Johnston said

Johnston said affirmative
action programs have begun

in three government
departments already. and
“substantial progress” has

been made He added that
he hoped other departments
would follow

But NDP MP Rod Murphy
said the governments acthon
was not enough. and called
for @a@ comparalve wage
study to ensure women were
treated fairly

‘In 197
cabinet

there was a
directive en

Couraging managers to

promote women. he said
‘Nothing has really hap
pened since then There is
no commitment from the

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Where:
When:

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bit of Christmas spending
money in our jeans set out
with great anticipation, gift
list at the ready, it’s true that
for a lot of people shopping
is a colossal drag. What fun
is it to try to buy something
for people who already have
more “somethings” than they
know what to do with? Yet
thinking of friends at
Christmastime is what even
the Scroogiest of Scrooges
finds hard to resist. So what
to do? You can always do
what a friend of a friend of
mine did when she went to

Charges regar
in the p

ublic s

government to do anything
other than make a study in
three departments out of 100
in the government...”

The council's report said
female public servants were
working in “low-paying.
low-status” jobs eight years
after the cabinet ordered

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visit a Rockerfeller — take a
jar of homemade jam,
because “what else can you
bring a billionaire?”

But with the idea of trying
to help you proceed through
your shopping lists with
aplomb and pleasure, may |
offer you my yearly
suggestion that you give a
course this Christmas? It's
not time for the new
brochure, so you can spend
a couple of weeks just
thinking about it all. Start
with the hardest to please —
it would be impossible not to

Give a course for Xmas

find something in the roster
of Night Train titles that
wouldn't strike a responsive
cord in that fussy heart.

If your “hard-to-please-er"
works at a cerebral job,
think of something that
would simply be jolly fun —
exotic cooking or disco
dancing. Or how about a
course involving working
with clay for real relaxation,
or for something completely
different, — handwriting
analysis? Think on these
things until next week!

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more promotions for women
to Management positions.
Entitled “Women in the
Public Service: Overlooked
and Undervalued,” the
report said as of March 1979
only 3.3 per cent of the
government's senior
management were women.

LL.

ied
At the present rate of
mobility, it reported, it will

take women 66 years to
achieve equality.

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An “Evening in Italy” is
the theme for the North
Vancouver-Burnaby Libera!
Association dinner dance on
Saturday, November 22 — at
which federal Com-
munications Minister
Francis Fox will be guest
speaker.

The gala evening will be
held in the Gizeh Shrine
Temple, 3550 Wayburne
Drive, Burnaby.

Francis Fox to address
North Van Liberals

Reception is at 6:30 pm.
Smorgasbord at 7:30 pm.
Dancing to the Johnny

Fuoco Orchestra from 9:00

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