Our conclusions about this shift in training funds is that:

• the shift of funds away from BTSD and Language programs will adversely affect 37.3% of female trainees and 20.9% of male trainees.

• the shift of funds towards Occupational, Apprenticeship and Industrial programs will positively affect 62.7% of female trainees and 79.1% of male trainees.

• of the total trainees involved in BTSD and Language programs, 55.2% are female.

• of the total trainees involved in Occupational, Apprenticeship, and Industrial programs, 24.4% are female.

Our general conclusions about all these shifts in funding, job creation programs and labour force expansion, would be:

• women will be more adversely affected by men.

• unless more women are admitted to Occupational, Apprenticeship, and Industrial programs, the proportion of women in the total of all training programs will decrease

• women in Ontario, British Columbia, and the Prairie regions will theoretically have access to more training funds but in practice may only hold the proportion they now have.

• women in Quebec and the Atlantic regions will have access to fewer funds in both theory and practice.

The net result of these shifts is to produce more obstacles for the under-educated, untrained, older woman and increasing benefits to the educated, recently-trained, younger woman. The obstacles and benefits will tend to perpetuate themselves as the market becomes more selective in hiring practices and recent training becomes more vital. In fact, it seems possible that the more the system educates and trains women who already have some education and training, the greater the obstacles will become for those with little or none. The education/training system tends to reward those who have already entered or who have never left, and to hinder those who are not now in it by reason of having left at an early age or of having never entered.