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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:

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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,