Girls to try ‘male’ trades at Polytech
About 70 girls from Christchurch secondary schools will spend a day trying different trades at the Christchurch Polytechnic next month.
The day was part of a Labour Department scheme to interest girls in trade careers, said a senior employment officer, Ms Alison Kagen.
The fourth-form girls would try out work in the electrical, meat, and metal trades and discuss apprenticeships with women already in trades and with Polytechnic staff.
“So far we have only approached seven girls’ schools, but we hope to expand the scheme and have girls from co-educa-tional schools as well,” Ms Kagen said.
Fourth-form girls had been chosen because the department wanted to “get to them” before the girls chose their fifth-form subjects.
The Polytechnic would offer girls the chance to try other trades when its ap-prentice-training commitments had lightened, she said.
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