Parts of the Canadian economy are still hobbled by a shortage of skilled workers, and women are vastly under-represented in the trades.
The British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, B.C. is trying to change both by adopting a one-day event that started in Ontario ten years ago and has spread across the country.
The Jill of All Trades program hosted students from thirty-seven B.C. high schools across ten different school districts.
Global’s Sharron Bates reports.
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Nice
This is fakenews. The women in skilled trades program was just shut down because the success rate for women actually reaching journeyperson is less than 5%, exact same as as the country wide career average.
I like it
It's tough. It's dirty and it's hard work. Good on them.
Whats a woman?
I worked in the pipe trades and taught at a college for years. I have only met one or two women who could make the cut but frankly I doubt that they would be happy working a full career in the trenches.
I'm intrested
Just hope they don't call HR every day
I agree
precious .
I was a truck driver and maintenance tech, even drove in the oil patch. Women can do anything a man can, and better, sick of the stigma around women in trades.
I took a career planning course that encouraged females in non traditional trades. That was in 1992!!!!!!!
0 chance…. anyone whos worked a week in the trades understands how this isn't even possible… if they wanted to work these jobs they would, stop villainizing masculinity and maybe more femboys would enroll in trades.
They should make all women teams , no one wants to work with bitter women who use character assassination
THIS IS A FANTASTIC PROGRAM, BRAVO!
One thing ive always found strange is that guys go into trades all the time but dont have any of these classes.