I work with representatives of the various equity committees on campus and have been instrmental in establishing regular monthly meetings of this group. The Equity Network, as we have come to call ourselves, provides an opportunity to coordinate our work and to focus on the larger policy issues which will improve the status of all the equity groups at Carleton. We work together to ensure that the university's policies and procedures recognize the complexity of many women's experiences. Some women, for example, may experience discrimination on the basis of their gender and their race, or disability or family stauts. Women's rights are also human rights and about a third of the work I do is focused on the ways in which those rights are ignored or infringed upo.
Sexism remains am obstacle to wmen's equality.
Discrimination does not live in watertight compartments and frequently the women who come to see me are experiencing several types of harassment or discrimination at once. Because half tha individuals who experince racism or homophobia are women, and half of those discriminated against as a result of a disablility are women, I deal regularly with complaints of discrimination on the basis of race, sexual orientation and disability. I made a presentation to the committee on the sexual harassment policy and oulined some of the issues which are raised in policy development. I hope this is an area the University will continue to explore. Revisions to that policy were approved in March 1990.