fhe Vancouver Women's Caucus started at Simon Fraser
University with individual research papers on the position
of women in society and discussions of the political
implicationsthat logically celiewed from these papers. The
women in the S.D.U., the leftist student poll tica®’ dreanine-
tion found that as usual they were expected to make the ne
coffee and address# the envelopes but that their very real |
problems were ignored. They formed a women's caucus to
discuss and take action on these problems. This group |
arranged for the distribution of the McGill handbook on |
birth control and formed a co-operative day care centre.
Meanwhile similar groups were forming at U.B.C. And Van-
couver City College - they ee a, for the
distribution of McGill handbooks and are still working on
their day care problems. The climate for this type of
intellectual discussion and action is not as good as it was’
at Simon Fraser.

By the spring of 1969 the Simon Fraser group dsotaed
that their other urgent problems such as equitable integration
into the work force and abortion law repeal could not be
dealt with effectively at Simon Fraser University and that
discussions with non University women were beccetias, They
decided to form a new group off campus. The first public
meeting of the general Women's Caucus was held at Fisherman's
Hall on May 21, 1969. There was a panel discussion on women

in the work force, and plans were laid for talking to teachers