FIGURE 7

Changes in Enrollment of Women in Selected Areas of Graduate Study
1970/71, 1975/76 and 1983/84

Source: Statistics Canada, Education Statistics (Annual) #81-002

2.7 - Women In Education Leadership

TABLE 8 illustrates a disturbing trend concerning the role models presented to female students. This TABLE shows the participation of Canadian women in education leadership between 1975/1976 and 1983/1984. Despite small gains in some areas, there has been very little real gain for women overall.

For example:

• the percentage of women Vice-Principals and Principals at the secondary level increased from 20% to 21% and from 7% to 9% respectively during this time
  
  
• the percentage of women Vice-Principals at the elementary level increased from 22% to 24% while the percentage of women elementary Principals did not increase at all
  
  
• the percentage of women Community College senior administrators rose from 18% to 24%
• the percentage of women senior administrators in universities increased from 7% to 9%.

Thus, female students continue to be as likely to have male administrators from elementary school through university as they were in the past. They are also likely to have exclusively male educators in university and community college Maths, Physical Sciences, Engineering and Applied Sciences courses.