Series GR-3566 - Executive records

The series consists of the executive records of the Ministry of Women’s Equality, and the preceding ministry, the Minister of Government Management Services and Minister Responsible for Women’s Programs (as it relates to women’s issues). Executive records are the administrative and operational records of the offices of minister, deputy ministers, and assistant deputy ministers.

In 1991, the Ministry of Women’s Programs and Government Services was disestablished, and two ministries were established: The Ministry of Women’s Equality and the Ministry of Government Services. At this time, the duties, responsibilities, and functions of the Minister of Women’s Programs and Government Services and Minister Responsible for Families with respect to women’s programs, including the Task Force on Family Violence, the Advisory Council on Services for Women, and the employment equity program were transferred to the Ministry of Women’s Equality (OIC 1377).

The records document a broad range of activities and interests of the ministries involved, as they relate to women. Some of the subjects covered here include: child care and the Community Care Facility Act; domestic violence and transitional housing; equal pay and employment equity; and Aboriginal women.

The records are comprised of meeting minutes and agendas, memoranda, briefing notes and estimates, and discussion papers. The records also consist of those relating to committees and task forces on which executive members served or were involved with in some capacity, including the Inter-Ministry Committee on Public Awareness on Violence Against Women, Task Force on Child Care, Advisory Council on Community Based Programs, and the Executive Committee. There is also substantial correspondence from private citizens, organizations, and businesses to members of the executive of the Ministry, as well as the Premier, Members of the Legislative Assembly, and correspondence addressed to other ministries which has been forwarded to the Ministry of Women’s Equality. Additionally, there are day planners of Deputy Ministers, Sheila Wynn and Isabel Kelly, and Penny Priddy’s schedules and itineraries, during the time that she served as Minister of Women’s Equality in 1991-1996.