LEVEN female. weldeés will: soon be: wetting the job
“done in a traditionally male bastion on the North:
Vancouver waterfront. (0.
The women completed a course in shieniaum w clding: Tharsdn that will
mM to work on.the largest,and: most ineavily scrutinized $ hiphuilding :
¢ North ‘Share in years. :
ranteed jobs to build B.C. Ferries’ $70- million ‘fast’
‘shuttle cars. and passengers berweeti Horseshoe
Bay. and Naiiaimo i in just: over an hour, passibly by date 1997,
areapproaching their jobs with pride, a touch ofnervous:
sss. and desire for a decent paycheque.” :
dded to, that, there 's the age: old. male: female thing, wi Shieh the women

Trine Whist, 4 3 b-year-old welder with an E nglish | fiterature degree from
sity of British Columbia, said thar men are generally supportive of”

i women onthe job. But she still hears, the: pica male, comment: “TH show :

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S il an, Painter 28, agreed with much of. what Whist said.

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