L’égalité en emploi dans les commissions scolaires : le portrait d’un secteur traditionnellement féminin

The author notes that in 1995, an equal opportunity advisory committee, created at the request of the Centrale de l'enseignement du Québec (CEQ), addressed the issue of employment equity within Quebec's 72 school boards, nine of which were Anglophone. In keeping with the procedure advocated in the Règlement sur l'accès à l'égalité respecting affirmative action programs, the Committee's first step was to outline the situation of women employed in the school boards. The author's statistical report on women employed in the school boards presents several facets of the situation of women in the education sector in 1993-1994. Traditionally, this sector was marked by a predominantly female workforce, and women's under-representation in administrative positions. Women teachers, administrators and non-teaching professionals hold more precarious and part-time positions than their male colleagues. The author notes that the English schools differed from French schools in that women are better represented among administrative personnel and non-teaching professionals.

Recherches féministes

Vol. 11

no. 1

243-251

1998

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