Thank you, Madam Chair.
I'd like to thank both of our guests for being here to offer their testimony today.
I'd like to start with Madam Mitchell.
I do appreciate your expertise in this area, particularly around girlhood. I actually have three beautiful daughters, so this is an issue that is quite important to me. I'd like to ask a few questions, though, based on what some of my colleagues brought up earlier in regard to some of the current trends.
In 2006, there was a labour force profile of youth by the Canadian Council on Social Development, which stated that the gender gap had reversed and that the employment market had improved more for girls than for boys.
In your opinion, what would this probably be attributed to? Is it that industries girls traditionally worked in have done better? Are girls entering non-traditional industries at increasing rates? Is something happening with boys that we're not aware of?