I could make a couple of comments. While there has been progress for women in moving into skilled trades and apprenticeships, we still see fairly low rates. I think there's a parallel to what we looked at in our study in terms of immigrants, whether they be male or female, from non-traditional source countries and attitudes towards doing an apprenticeship.
One of the issues is that we have just seen university attendance and completion rates go up so much for that group. We've also seen that for women, where the universities in Canada, on average, at the undergraduate level are overrepresented in terms of women as undergraduate students. That's a good thing.
I think this is a policy challenge. We see these individuals achieving very high levels of education, and yet we wonder whether some of them might be happier or have better labour market outcomes down the road if they go into skilled trades. I think that's an important factor.
I think also, potentially, discrimination is a factor, where for some women entering into traditional skilled trades, they may be entering into a male-dominated environment and it may not be that easy.
I think there's a challenge there in separating those two things out. I think that's an area for future research. There may be some policies designed to help women break into male-dominated skilled trades that could be looked at.