Comment:

Tables l2a and l2b provide a comparison between two years for various Manpower programs and labour force statistics for each province. This material is included here for the benefit of local groups of CCLOW (other data are also available for the provinces).

Note that, in general, those provinces with either low unemployment rates and/or high participation rates have higher percentages of women in training programs.

The extremely low value for Alberta for 1977 (17.1%) is the result of an extremely large apprenticeship program operating in that province in which the numbers of women are extremely low. In fact, the entire apprenticeship program is very unevenly distributed across Canada. Approximately 15,000 apprenticeship trainees are in Alberta; 16,000 in Ontario, 10,000 in British Columbia and the remaining 16,000 spread through the other seven provinces. That means that women are short-changed not only in their relative numbers as compared to men but also in terms of the total numbers of spaces available to any trainees.