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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-06-01, Page 29. I. / BY JACK RIDDELL, MPP The appointment of a Minister - with. special jurisdiction over issues of particular Concern to women came as welcome news to Members of the Legislature. Opposition Members have strongly favored such an ap- pointment for some time but we are more interested m substance than symbolism. Therefore, we have called upon Robert Welch, the new Minister to take early and decisive action on a number of issues: Equal Pay Legislation: Three decades after the adoption of the Female Employee's Fair Remunera- tion Act in 1951, how much progress has been made? Full-time working women earn, on average, 64 per cent of a man's wage. Average in- come of families headed by women is about $15,000 a year, compared to a man's $29,000. Wage gap • between men and women workers is almost as great as at the height of the depression fifty years ago. Our Party has been on record in favor of equal pay for work of equal value since 1977/78. Affirmative Action: The government's three-year-old Affirmative Action Program in the Ontario Public Service is a bitter joke for women. Its total lack of effectiveness is abundantly clear from 1981/82 statistics. In the ex- ecutive• wits, .there are 598 men and only 44 women. Of •'Public servants earning more than $59;000 a year,•275-' are men and only 40 women.....in spite of the. fact that women make up 42 per cent of the 'total public 'ser- vice. • Our Party is-definftely iir favor of mandatory Affir- mative Action, of equal op- portunities for women. Family violence:When is -the government going to take action on the serious and widespread prbblem of family violence, including funding • for transition houses? When will the Select Committee's Report on Wife Battering be brought before the Legislature? When will the government make some serious and sincere attempt to bring hope and assistance to battered wives and their children? Our Party has been con- stantly and actively concern- ed with ,this problem since- -• 1977, and three years ago • - David Peterson tabled a Private Member's Bill pro- posing a surcharge on every marriage licence for the pur- pose of creating a fund to • establish and support transi- tion houses. Pornography: 'The govern-. ment must make a real at- tempt to come to grips with the issue of the new por- nography - filled with violence, cruelty and hatred. • This is a social issue which requires a swift response by government. These are but a few of the burning issues with which ,the Minister must deal - and quickly. The women of this province are not prepared to accept tokenism, stalling or • empty gestures. There is a crying need for effective and far-reaching. Jegislation. They want action - and so do we. Women's Perspectives '83 On May 14, -the Ontario Liberal , Women's Perspective Advisory Com- mittee sponsored a highly successful all -day con- ference,'' "Women's Perspectives '83" in Toron- to, at which David Peterson urged women to become political pioneer's. "We need more people to step forward (despite) the pitfalls," he said. Otge way "to get a dif- ferent 'perspective at the caucus table' or Cabinet table is to have women such as Sheila Copps, Liberal MPP for Hamilton Centre, in positions of power. , Ylinaki enquiry rejected - ConServative Members of a legislative committee have rejected an attempt by the Turn to page 10A e r • r -, • krrl • • 4 ap, ‘‘. .• GMBIUCHSRN4146 WEJAMStAirAiirg 498. -PAGE -94 ••••••4.. A&P reserves the right to limit quantities to normal family requirements Prices effective thru Sat., June•401,1083: • I it Ur' l'ullOPMIi,,,i 1 REGULAR, ALL BEEF OR B.B.O. 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