2009-04-02
18:08:58
With billions of dollars in proposed energy and industrial investments on the table for Saint John companies are being encouraged to turn to women to help fill the skilled trades shortage. Women are dramatically under-represented in the skilled trades at a time when the province is facing a significant shortage in that area. In 2006, women represented only three per cent of the total apprenticeship registration in the province. Executive Director of the Saint John Construction Association, Pat Darrah, tells CHSJ News the apprenticeship seats are there for women who want them.
Darrah says they have seen more women entering the construction industry in the last two years than they have ever seen.
