participate in workshops.

The men who use our centre are mostly interested in our library and iecourse files.
People who make use o1 our pecounces by telephone breakdown similarly to

those who use our resources in persoi but with a higher percentage of people

from the community.

A WHO RUNS THE WOMEN'S, CENTRE

Our a composed of volunteer. In an average semester we have twenty

women staffing.Yhese women are organized collectively,each of them making a

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( Commvement of 8~10 hours a week which breaksdown as follows:

—-3-6 hours staffing

~2 hours forseollective eting re fora
4 as at Oy
5 biter feet brane gta bf ~ We ol
-l hour for organizing agree ORe ules «
—~2 hours in maintaining communicatYone and participating in the activities

of other women's groups. NO

LIMITATION OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM.

First of all we simply have too much work and too few people to do it. Staffing
the Women's Centre is a full time job,which cannot be doneuadequately by
parttime volunteers.The reouits are
a.ecancelled workshops.
b.curtailed hours the centre is vpen.
c.books are lost due to lack of time to contact over-due users.
d.important community bes information not posted in time for women
to be aware of.
e.women's needs for social contact, counselling and support are sadly
neglected.
A second major problem is that the women staffing the centre are all

students. Students are subject to enormous time pressures which vary with