THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Business and Professional Women’s Clubs of Ontario urge the Government of Ontario:
a)to fund research on the extent and cause of wife assault, using standardized reporting and definitions of these terms;
b)to fund research into the methods of prevention, including the effectiveness of the Court system in dealing with wife assault, with a view to establishing preventive and educational programs directed at the intervention, control and elimination of this social problem;
c)to encourage school boards to include the subject of wife assault in appropriate curricula for students and in the professional development of staff; and
d)to ensure that school boards in Ontario implement existing Ministry of Education policies on sex-role stereotyping.