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planning. “I think it’s (the change)

due to the change in the
social mobility of women in the
work force and education.”

The carliest available figures
date back to the 1982 fall semester
when Capilano College's female

rollment stood ar 55%. By the
fall of 1993, the figure climbed to
57% and higher still to 59% by last
fail.

“Ic is shifting, but it is shifting
slowly,” said Penny Le Couter who
has been at the college since ir
opened and is now the division
chair of pure and applied sciences

Tr turns out Capilano College’s
female enrollment: figures reflect
both national and” provincial
trends. According to the results of
a two-vear project coniniss
by the federal and provincial mini

ters responsible for the status of

women, the ratio of females
enrolled in post-secondary institu -
tions has been increasing steadily
since 1981.

The project findings, published
as Economic Gender Equality
Indicators (EGEI) last: February,
show female enrollment has been
inereasing in all categories includ-
i ionally male-dominated

such as mathemaries and

“my sure that there’s mor
women now going into phy
sciences than there are men going
into carly childhood education,”
said Le Couter.

“We're hoping in) both those

the barriers are coming

results bear out Le
Couter’s impressions, but her
hopes are not realized when it
comes ro males breaking barriers to
traditionally female dominated
fields. It shows the ratio of females
to males graduating with degrees
in those fields as having ince
trom 2.24 to three female
every one ma
Le Couter

sees the overall

NEWS photo Terry Peters

WOMEN made up 59% of Capilano College's entire student body. The figure has been steadily
climbing since the the college started keeping the statistics in the fall of 1982.

Capilano College figures as some-
what misleading because of
popularit several of the female-
dominated departments at the col-
lege. These include carly childhood
education and medical office assis-
tant programs,

She added colleges in’ general
have adv boasted a higher pe

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said Le Couter adding both

al proximity to student bod:
tes and lower tuition have both
plaved fe in the irend.

he Courter said the percenrag

of females enrailed in sciences
stands at about 30%,

-_:. CAPILANO COLLEGE
CHANGING GENDER ENROLLMENT STATS

55% 45% | 57% 43% | 59% 41%

WOMEN have made up an increasing percentage of the Capilano
College student body. The latest figure stands at 59%.

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partupaats booween Vanco’
and Whistler.

“The Ohompic factor has nor
been expr “he told
the News on Thursday

Deyle sud thar v
improvements will be a factor in
the crossings design, the pro-
posal guidehnes currently being
dratied tor the three selected pa-

vate se.tor proponents talk only
in terms of a four-lane crossing.

Bur Doyle said the terms
being dratted would net py
clude a tunnel optics.

A Transportation Feasibility
Report prepared by IPS
Consaltants in September 1997
for the Games bid notes:
“Tramsportation across the
Burrard Tndet and up the moun-
tains at Seymour or C :
be the most challenging prob-
lera.”

The report goes on to say

| that spectator access by private
vehicle to the ski jump site slated
tor Seymour will likely have to
be banned.

Additional buses bevond
those planned tor the year 2010
will be required and the report
suggests BC Transit either bor-
row the “spare fleet” from
Victoria and elsewhere, or plan
to extead the lite of older buses
phite bringing — replacement

on-line carliee.

iagacy items are a traditional

ft of Olympic Games.

The report suggests

des new sports facilities,
trai sportation «could benetit
from: “.. a rapid: rail line to
URC, an additional SeaBus, and
road,‘bridge improvements te
the North Shore.”

Greater Vaneouver Regional
District aff say that “while the
challenges wall be great, with
foresi¢ ht and goodwill. . the
transportation demands of the
Games can probably be accom-
modated.”

However, staff also argue
that the IPS report: underesti-
martes how the Vancouver region
compares to Calgary ins transit

noting char the Alberta

alinost three times the

i equipment and 50% more
s than does Vanco

The GVRD Y
pared for Wednesday's board
mecung:

@ describes 1

the North Shore as

ing,”

M notes thar the upgrade or
acement of the Liens Gate

Bridge “will nor add sign

capacity in the peak

only in the off

Wsuygests that large movements

to and from: Mount Seymour or

Cypress Bowl could be a chal-

that

vel to and from
“challeng:

rs rail service as a potential
sehmion to tr ‘vel to and from
Whisder.

The report acknowledges
that reliable passenger services
are possible “but would signifi:
cantly affeet freight operations.

Tiowever, BC Rail’s di
oF corporate communications
Barry Wall says bis cony

oO GISCUISS passe
Whistler tor the Winter Games.

“Good God, no. When are
thew? 12 years away? Why would

ctanto thar now. We might
get into that when and if it hap-
pens,” Wall told the News
Thorday,