I think it's as you mentioned. Students are going into more and more debt, and just the way the economy is, it seems as though for many of the jobs you need to take on an unpaid internship in order to gain any sort of footing.
At U of T we have some good examples of paid internship opportunities. For example, our engineering and computer science students tend to go into what's called PEY, a professional employment year. They're able to gain paid employment—it's an internship, but it's paid—and afterwards, they tend to find jobs in those fields. But in a number of other fields that are typically female-dominated, as Claire mentioned, such as journalism and the fashion industry, there aren't the same opportunities.