Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, ladies, for being here and for participating in this discussion.
As a woman who has, in the past, been in construction and whose business deals with the construction sector all the time, I have some familiarity with some of the problems. I sometimes wonder if what women are facing today in moving into these non-traditional jobs is something akin to what our mothers and grandmothers faced during the wars, when many of them moved into the munitions factories and undertook roles that were considered non-traditional. It really was the emergence of women into many of our manufacturing facilities, and some of them never went back to their traditional roles.
May I say, Ms. Turner, that I was in Newfoundland, in Gander, a year and a half ago, and I had some very interesting discussions with the skills training office about opportunities there.
Ms. McDiarmid, perhaps from your experience, I wonder, first of all, if you can tell us what kind of timeline we are talking about since women first started in the construction industry. What kind of data do we have to work with?