I'm a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, so I'm in a very male-dominated career set; about one in a hundred are women. We often see that in other skilled trades. We saw that when we were out visiting in Atlantic Canada a couple of weeks ago: in the Irving shipyards there were not as many women as there were men, but they were growing in numbers.
Do you know of specific firms that have programs that encourage young women to enter into the trades, and what would be a best practice that you think could be adopted by other industry leaders in order to encourage young women to enter into skilled trades?