Minister asked about equality
PA Wellington The Minister of Labour, Mr Bolger, has been asked in Parliament what he is going to do to encourage equality before the end of the International Decade for Women. Mrs Margaret Shields (Lab., Kapiti) also asked the Minister if he did not believe that young women were just as capable, intelligent, able, and competent as young men. She was speaking during the second reading debate of the Apprenticeship Bill. Mrs Shields asked Mr
Bolger to consider finding ways to encourage not only young men but young women into apprenticeship training. Less than one tenth of young women received trade training, she said. “Eight out of 100 of our apprentices are young women, and almost all of those are in ladies’ hairdressing.” Mr Bolger, in reply, said that young women were now looking at a wider spectrum of employment opportunities, but changes would not occur overnight.
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