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December 4, 2023 Speaker: Peter Banting SWINGTET Topic: Music - Fun Location: Solel Congregation 2399 Folkway Dr, Mississauga, L5L 2M6 Start Time: 1:30PM social 2:00 PM meeting start |
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Please follow this link->> for the November, December 2023 & Jan 2024 issue PAST PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE - Fall 2023CFUW Editorial Sept 2023 We won! More than one hundred years ago, our original CFUW club in Winnipeg set out to encourage young women, through financial support, to go to university. Today, women outnumber men on our campuses, a trend that started about 1980. Women are the majority in the fields we would expect: Health, Social Services, Humanities, Education, but we also are the majority in Business programs (Stats Can). In STEM programs, Architecture, Engineering, Mathematics, women comprise 25% of the enrollment (Stats Can). Is this by choice? Since 1919, our scholarship winners have been the top students with community involvement and clear career objectives. These women, while grateful to us, will no doubt receive offers of scholarships or even free tuition from several universities. Their personal drive and intellect will ensure their success without our support. I was motivated to write this editorial by the woman we helped graduate from Sheridan College. She needed our financial help to upgrade her skills. There are thousands like her. With a hand up, they can upgrade their skills to escape poverty, recover from a marital breakdown, and inspire their children to stay in school. I believe it is time to change our focus and direct our funds to the women who really need us. FYI From Stats Can for 25- to 34-year-olds In 2006 32.8% of women had at least one degree and by 2016 the number rose to 40.7% In 2006 24.8 % of men had at least one degree and by 2016 the number rose to 29.1% One author postulated that soon there will be two women graduates for every man. Since most women grads tend to marry other grads, the birth rate for women graduates will drop. Who knew we would create this phenomenon? Why are men opting not to attend university? One reason postulated on the internet is low return on investment (ROI). A degree has an increasingly low ROI unless a profession is pursued like law or engineering. Listen to the ads on the radio. At the end of four years of university, the grad has no real-world experience (police force concern), student loans to pay off, and only entry level jobs offered. After four years, the trades grad has real world experience, no debt, and a high paying job waiting for him. The USA has an even bigger problem. Women outnumber men at the community college level by a ratio of 6 to 4 (The Atlantic) and the male drop out rate is 20% higher (Think Impact). Covid too had an impact. Male enrollment dropped 8.9% in 2020 and 18% in 2021. Their future success will be limited. Shortsighted and sad at the same time! Every year or so, we sit around and discuss how to improve our club. I particular, we focus on attracting and retaining new members. Are we missing or neglecting something? Dianne Lawson, Past President CFUW Mississauga |
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Founded in 1919, the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) is a national non-profit, non-governmental, non-partisan women's equality seeking organization of almost 10,000 women graduates, students and associate members in more than 100 clubs across Canada. CFUW has special consultative status at the United Nations and representation at the Education Committee of the Canadian Commission to UNESCO.
CFUW Mississauga currently has a membership of approximately 160 women graduates from many different universities and educational institutions. We meet monthly from September to April, generally on the first Monday of each month, at Solel Congregation, 2399 Folkway Dr, Mississauga, ON.
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CFUW Mississauga currently has a membership of approximately 160 women graduates from many different universities and educational institutions. We meet monthly from September to April, generally on the first Monday of each month, at Solel Congregation, 2399 Folkway Dr, Mississauga, ON.
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