We welcome your participation in the collective and the Women's Centre events on campus. The Women's Centre is striving to provide a safe place for women as well as space in which women can speak openly about their experiences and opinions. We are working to give women the confidence, support and resources they need to live free from oppression. Women have been socially, culturally and economically conditioned to give deference to men. Women have been historically disadvantaged with respect to leadership positions in society.
Women are often in fear of men, and have experienced emotional or physical abuse from men.
At the Women's Centre, women have the opportunity to meet with other women, to relax, talk or plan action on women's issues. Here we can begin to work together in a safe and nurturing environment, where everyone's voice is equal and valued. For these reasons and many others we feel that a women-only space is essential for women, and ask men to respect this. We encourage men to use the resources such as the library and free condoms, but we ask that men do not 'hang out' in the couch area of the Centre. However, this policy is flexible, dependant upon the women in the Center at the time, and the topic under discussion.