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TABLES 10 and 11 indicate changes in the number and percentage
of women enrolled in training for specific occupations under the General
Industrial Training or Institutional Skill Training Programs in 1980/1981 (the
first year that this information was available) and in 1983/1984. TABLE 12 also
shows the previous education level of trainees in 1976/1977 and in 1983/1984.
The TABLES show:
- From 1980/1981 to 1983/1984, women's share of training
spaces had declined from 27% to 24% in General Industrial Training and from 41%
to 30% in Institutional Skills Training.
- In both Programs, women's share of managerial/
administrative training has increased although the number of women in
General Industrial Training dropped substantially (from 414 in 1980/1981 to 147
in 1983/1984).
- The number of women trainees in Primary and Secondary
industry areas was cut by more than half (under the GIT Program, from 349 to 96
in Primary industries and from 7741 to 3281 in Secondary industries; under the
Institutional Skills Training Program, from 556 to 381 in Primary industries
and from 3469 to 3002 in Secondary industries).
In most cases, this
also constituted a decrease in women's share of training
spaces.
- The education level of trainees prior to entering these
Programs became somewhat higher. While women with higher educational attainment
may have been more successful in Industrial Training programs, this change
served to exclude poorly educated women. These women require up-grading before
they can access the type of training that leads to well-paying jobs. Thus, it
is still the case that these women, who most need up-grading and training in
order to earn a livable wage, were being largely ignored in this major
government initiative.
- As in all other areas of education and training, women
continued to be disproportionately represented in traditionally women's
occupations.
Boothby, in his analysis of Employment and Immigration training
programs, agrees that these programs have "done little to diversify the
occupational distribution of women beyond stereotypical female occupations At
best, (EIC) training programs have simply reflected the occupational
segregation by sex in the labor market".* |