About


In April 1999, an equality workshop was held for women in Central Newfoundland. Among the common threads identified by participants were an expressed interest in a local Status of Women’s Council and an acknowledgement of the need for a Women’s Center. Thus began the work of the steering committee for the Status of Women’s Council in Central NL. Status of Women Central was successful in obtaining provincial core funding through the Women’s Policy Office in March 2002. That meant we could take the next step.


The doors of the Women’s Center on 11 Hardy Avenue in Grand Falls-Windsor, NL were opened in July 2002.


To date, the Women’s Center continues to partner with various community organizations to fulfill our mandate… to actively further the political, social, economic and personal equality of women.


Our volunteer board and our staff members continue to work daily to provide a number of essential services to the women, families and communities of the Central West Region as well as working to promote equality in our province as a whole. The Women’s Center is for you!



Thirteen Feminist Premises


  1. To be a feminist is to assert our equal value as women in a society that too often undervalues our worth, contributions and experience.
  2. To be a feminist is to challenge the inequities in power and privilege that exist because of sexism, classism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, racism and all other forms of exclusion.
  3. To be a feminist is to question the institution of family as it is currently structured, and to challenge the roles and responsibilities of women and men in family care giving.
  4. To be a feminist is to be a strategist in challenging structures and institutions that are built upon male values and experience, and that limit women’s equal participation.
  5. To be a feminist is to view the world through our women’s eyes from our women’s experience, and to see this lens as valuable and necessary in the pursuit of equality and inclusion.
  6. To be a feminist is to recognize, include and value women’s different kinds of knowledge, including knowledge informed by personal experience and knowledge acquired through work and education.
  7. To be a feminist is to acknowledge that the world is not always a safe place for women to speak out about inequality. The strength that exists in the collective voice of women’s organizations makes our challenges safer and more effective.
  8. To be a feminist is to take responsibility for learning about the issues that often seem to divide us (the environment, war, sexuality), and to create safe spaces to talk about our disagreements.
  9. To be a feminist is to challenge men to support our feminist agenda, and to support pro-feminist men who share our common agenda for peace, equality and justice.
  10. To be a feminist is to take pride in feminism as a movement for transforming the world into an equitable, peaceful and just place for women, men and children.
  11. To be a feminist is to examine our organization’s principles, practices and processes to ensure that we are creating opportunities to include the perspectives of women whose voices have not been included ( e.g., young women, seniors, lesbians, Aboriginal women).
  12. To be a feminist is to take our agenda for women’s equality and inclusion into every meeting regardless of the structured agenda.
  13. To be a feminist is to make every meeting a celebration, and every celebration a meeting: to continuously acknowledge both the challenges and joys of working for and with women.


Provincial Advisory on the Status of Women

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