Women in Apprenticeship and Trades

The Yukon Training Strategy committed the Yukon Government to develop an equity strategy for apprenticeship training focusing specifically on:

1. Quantifying and qualifying the current situation of women working and/or studying in the trades, as well as those women no longer involved in the trades.
2. Identifying the barriers to women in existing trades and examining the options for women in non-traditional apprenticeship programs, and
3. Making recommendations on how to encourage women to participate in apprenticeship programs.

Advanced Education is working to fulfill the commitment made by Government in the 1998 Yukon Training Strategy.

As part of this Strategy, Advanced Education, in partnership with the Yukon Women's Directorate, commissioned a report to study and make recommendations on how to encourage women to participate in apprenticeship. This report, Yukon Women in Apprenticeship and Trades, was tabled in the Yukon Legislative Assembly on November 9, 1999.

The recommendations included:

• Improve and add to existing training programs for women
• Create women's networks
• Offer programs for young women

Implementation of the report's recommendations began in 2000.

Labour Market Programs and Services
Advanced Education
Department of Education
Government of Yukon
Box 2703
Whitehorse, Yukon
Canada Y1A 2C6

Phone: (867) 667-5131
Toll free (In Yukon):
1-800-661-0408, local 5131
Fax: (867) 667-8555

contact.education
@gov.yk.ca