HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1985-03-20, Page 69Increase political output
Municipal representatives from across the
province were told to expect more political
input from rural women as they work to
bridge the gap between town and country and
strengthen rural life in general.
Speaking at the rural section of the
Association of Municipalities of Ontario an-
nual conference in lbronto recently, a panel
of four women urged local political figures to
seek out the advice and talents of women, and
support them in their bid to have a say in
municipal political life.
Mplly
McGhee, OMAFspecial adviser and
author of Women in Rural life, told her
audience to expect increased municipal
involvement on the part of rural women.
"Decisions of local government's have a
profound effect on women's lives. I predict
that before long women will take, much more
action in local politics," she said. "So no one
should be surprised, say five years down the
line, when women become the vocal
majority."
McGhee said that barriers of the past - low
self esteem, lack of information - are
crumbling as women seek to express and
inform themselves through network groups,
for example, and enact their burgeoning
desire, to have a say in local political
decisions.
Brenda Ward, a Perth County fanner and
executive board member of the Ontario
Federation of Agriculture, said that elected
municipal representatives have an obligation
to first, read McGhee's Women in Rural Life
report, and second, work towards implement-
ing its recommendations.
Politicians must never 'forget how closely
the economic well being of urban' areas, and
the country at large, is tied into the health of
the agriculture sector, she said.
"You need us to turn around the country's
economy," Ward stated.
She noted that aooessbile, affordable child
care services are of utmost conceal to rural
women. The pressing need for such progranns
betaines even more evident in light of
statistics which state that 56 per cent of all
faun injuries happen to children three years
old and under.
"How many of these little people are
maimed for life because off lack of sufficient
child. care?" Ward. asked.
She praised studies being conducted by
OMAF into the child care issue, and urged
municipal politicians to press for the creation
of adequate centres.
Patricia Bailey, deputy reeve of the Town of
Wingham and co-owner of Sunrise Dairy,
spoke from experience when she confessed
that the mad to rural politics was not an easy
one for women. However, qualities like
honesty, dedication, and hard work make
their own inroads in the political arena
Worthen, she said, must put these attributes
to work for them.
"How can we be fairly represented unless
more women take part?" she questioned.
"All I` hear are drains, 'roads, sewers..."
Where, she asks, is the concern for child carne
programs, and the protest against the elimin-
ation of indirect subsidies?
Valerie Bolton, executive director of
Women Today of Huron County, said the
changing role of women can be witnessed in
the growth of informal "kitchen sessions"
into major movements like the Geneva Park
Turning Point conference.
Well organized sessions like Tuning Point
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