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Women and Empowerment in Northern Canada and India: A Community Based Strategy for Building an Ecological Sustainable Way of Knowing
Principal Investigator: Brown, Rai
Licensed Year(s): 2000
Summary: This project will study the impact of education of women's status in Northern Canada and hopefully develop an ethic that re-engages culture and ecology by challenging the western notion of progress. The researcher will conduct unstructured interviews with innovative educational institutions, sustainable development organizations, and women involved in community-building projects, social justice i...


Women's Access to Employment in Northern Resource Communities: Barriers and Opportunities.
Principal Investigator: Bron, Ingrid
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: Because the main objective of visiting the NWT is the dissemination of research results and verification of findings with a similar community, sampling will be done on a convenience basis, using lead contacts, networking. Interviews with women, who may be participants and non participants in resource industry, trainers/educators, employers, labour force development staff, and/or advocacy organize...


Towards a Woman-Positive Basic Education - MA Thesis
Principal Investigator: Doyle, Marie
Licensed Year(s): 1996
Summary: The researcher will utilize three methods to gather data: interviews, document analysis, and a questionnaire. Interviews of staff and students at the Yellowknife campus are the centre piece of the planned research, while the questionnaires will be used principally to identify interview participants. Informed consent will be obtained through the use of consent forms....


Domestic Economy on Baffin Island
Principal Investigator: Oakes, Jill
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: This study is community-based: the researchers will work with the Baffin communities in order that the study meets the needs of each community as well as the region. The work will identify the formal and informal economic contributions Inuit women make. It will also help interested women establish sewing centres and develop marketing strategies. Both Elders and young women will be interviewed t...


Needs Assessment of Women with Disabilities in the NWT
Principal Investigator: Christophers, Sandy
Licensed Year(s): 1993
Summary: The NWT Council for Disabled Persons will contact NWT Women's Groups and community representatives to develop contact lists for women with disabilities. In addition, the Council will develop and distribute a survey that helps to identify issues and concerns for women with disabilities. These issues will be summarized and recommendations will be made in light of these issues....


Northern Women in Conflict with the Law
Principal Investigator: Zellerer, Evelyn
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The researcher and her team will hold discussions with authorities in Yellowknife which will help guide the research. Data will be collected from government documents, archival material, court records, and interviews. Pre-sentence reports will be examined and women who are being held at the Fort Smith Correctional Centre for Women will be interviewed. Correctional authorities and service provid...


Perspective on Mental Health and Illness by Selected Dogrib Women Patients
Principal Investigator: Crawford, Lorie
Licensed Year(s): 1992
Summary: The purpose of this research is to identify selective Dogrib perspectives surrounding mental health and illness. Women from Dogrib communities who are currently receiving treatment for a long term mental illness will be interviewed to learn their perceptions of need for treatment, what works, what doesn't, what their expectations are, and how their familial relationships have shifted over the cou...


The Experience of Depression for Chipewyan and White Northern Women
Principal Investigator: MacLean, Lynne
Licensed Year(s): 1988
Summary: Lynne MacLean will be interviewing women and mental health workers about depression and how to overcome it. All interviews will be confidential. She wants to know whether the experience and effects of depression are different between Chipewyan and white women. She also will ask mental health workers what types of difficulties they experience when dealing with depression in native versus non-nat...


Women in the North
Principal Investigator: Crnkovich, Mary
Licensed Year(s): 1988 1987
Summary: Mary Crnkovitch's assistant, Angela Bernal, is completing the interviews required to produce a book on issues facing northern women. The book will cover topics ranging from giving birth, to women in politics, to special social problems such as family violence. The book should be published in the fall by the Canadian Arctic Resources Committee (CARC) in Ottawa....


Women in Politics and Leadership Roles in the N.W.T.
Principal Investigator: Bresnahan, Barb R.
Licensed Year(s): 1987
Summary: To interview women regarding their experiences and perceptions of the participation of women in the political process and leadership roles in the Northwest Territories, with the hope of discovering why so many women become politically active in the north....


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