Thank you, Madam Chair.
I too would like to thank the witnesses for the very rich dialogue they've added to our study on women in non-traditional occupations.
Certainly, as I listen to you, it sounds like we actually need strategies from birth through to ongoing successful employment, with interventions all along the way to create perhaps what our vision is. It's difficult to know which is the most important in terms of creating that. Maybe it has to come from many different angles.
I grew up in a family with four girls. My father taught us to change the tires on our car--there was no way his daughters were going to be standing at the side of the road asking for help--and to dig ditches. The expectation amongst my siblings in our family was that you can and you need to be able to do anything.
So I look at that as one thing. And I guess as we look at “birth through”, I'm wondering if anyone has a sense of how we compare internationally, specifically in construction. I'm wondering if there's anywhere that's better than us.
I leave that open to anyone.