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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED313793 AUTHOR: Rees, Ruth
TITLE: Employment Equity Policies and Practices in Ontario
School Boards.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1989
NOTE: 15 p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Ontario Educational Research Council (Toronto, Ontario,
March 1989).
ABSTRACT: The research, based on a March 1988 survey of all
Ontario school boards (board and separate), was an attempt
to identify and synthesize boards' employment
equity/affirmative action policies and practices--in order
to ensure that, ultimately, women are more equitably
represented within the management positions in education.
The findings of 52 boards for both policies and practices
were categorized into four areas: (1) general and broad
statements on employment equity; (2) statements specifically
intended to assist women; (3) statements concerning
hiring/recruitment/selection issues; and (4) statements
aimed at eliminating systemic discrimination. The intention
of this research was to provide this wealth of employment
equity initiatives as an encouragement to other school
boards, and to focus attention on the two diverse types of
employment equity strategies: getting more women into those
positions of added responsibility and keeping more women in
those same positions. (7 references) (Author)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Educational-Policy; Elementary-Secondary
Education; Foreign-Countries; National-Surveys
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Affirmative-Action; *Boards-of-Education;
*Educational-Administration; *Equal-Opportunities-Jobs;
*Females-; *Sex-Fairness
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