In other words, since Devereaux does not acknowledge women's present status and, therefore, their different training needs, her analysis is insufficient for the purposes of this study.

Surveys of education and training institutions are needed to determine if they meet the diverse needs of women students by providing such services as:

* Gaskell, J. Education and Career Choice, 1982.
** Devereaux, M.S. One in Every Five, 1985.

• on-site child care and financial child-care support
• transportation
• distance education
• training allowances
• curriculum which acknowledges the unique needs of women
• flexible scheduling
• specialized counseling.

Employment and Income

Census Canada and The Labor Force Survey provide invaluable longitudinal information on the employment of women and men. However, these data are not broken down for minority or disability status.

Income data, on the other hand, are very difficult to interpret since various studies keep the information in different ways, and not all information is kept by gender:

• industry wage rates are not kept by gender
• income is sometimes based on all workers, sometimes on only full-time, full-year workers
• at various times, income is calculated by "economic household", "census family", or "individuals", making comparisons from one study to another impossible.

A further problem with Census data is the tendency to ask important questions on the Census on a one-time basis. Thus, the Census may provide excellent information on a given topic but, because the question is not included in subsequent years, it is not possible to make longitudinal comparisons.

Question areas maintained over time, which would assist studies like this one, include education, training, employment and income and how each of these relates to particular disadvantaged groups.

Finally, it is difficult to find information on education, training, employment or income for the Northwest Territories or the Yukon.