CANADA MANPOWER TRAINING PROGRAM (CMTP)

"The number of female trainees commencing full-time training decreased by 6.7% from 80,256 in 1979-80 to 74,904 in 1980-81,..." (1)

"Female participation in full-time institutional training decreased from 32.5% in 1979-80 to 30.8% in 1980-81." (2) Institutional trainees are those for whom CMTP purchases training spaces from community colleges and vocational schools.

"The female participation rate in industrial training was 27.4%." (3) Industrial training is employer provided, facilitated by CMTP wage subsidies to employers. The total number of full-time institutional trainees started in training programs is reported as 172,550 and of those 53,145 were women, based on the percentage participation rate given. The percentage of women institutional trainees is the lowest in the five year period reported. There were 79,863 industrial trainees in 1980-81 and based on the female participation rate of 27.4%, 21,882 of them were women.

Industrial Training

If women were distributed proportionately throughout the 23 occupations offered in industrial training we would expect to see 27.3% of students in each category being women. Instead we find women concentrated in a very few occupations.

(1) Annual Statistical Bulletin 1980-81, Canada Manpower Training Program, p. 5

(2) Ibid, p. 6

(3) Ibid, p. 7