The focus has been heavily on university qualifications and degrees. As I said, I have two daughters and I have always encouraged them to get into the trades, the “short vocational programs”, not because they are any less worthy but because I think they are trivialized and yet, that is what we need. This is what we will need in the future, hands and arms, and women are just as capable as men of doing that kind of work.
On October 29th, 2009. See this statement in context.