to tackle them one at a time.

Minister of Legislative and Women's Affairs the Hon. Lynda-Milligan Whyte said she hoped to assemble a task force, drawing on existing resources like the Women's Advisory Council, the Women's Resource Centre, and social agencies in Bermuda.

"My focus, if I can put it that way, would be to deal with women's issues in the context of family,'' she told The Royal Gazette yesterday.

"Anything that impacts on the family will of course affect women.'' Once the task force was established, she would like to see it "target one major issue at a time, as opposed to having a huge big agenda and not accomplishing very much.'' Which issue would be tackled first would be decided by the task force, Sen.

Milligan-Whyte said.

And creation of the task force itself would be subject to discussions with her Cabinet colleagues, she said.

Sen. Milligan-Whyte said yesterday she expected to receive a report this week from Community and Culture Minister the Hon. Yvette Swan, who has just returned from Beijing after representing Government at the United Nations sponsored Fourth World Conference on Women.

She also planned to meet with other women who attended another conference for non-governmental organisations which was held at the same time in China.

About five women from Bermuda went to China, she said. There would have been more, but like women around the world, several who planned to attend from Bermuda had trouble getting visas.

Sen. Milligan-Whyte, a lawyer, was named to the new portfolio after the Hon.

David Saul became Premier in August. Previously, responsibility for women's issues came under the Human Affairs portfolio held by the Hon. Jerome Dill.