In 1995, women made up 1.8% of construction workers, and 20% of processing, machining and fabrication workers.

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Options Unlimited A Role Modeling Program to Expand Career Options What is Role Modeling? Role Modeling occurs when you bring working women into schools, or take students into the workplace where they can learn, first-hand, about women and work. Role modeling works well at all grade levels, but some research indicates that it may have its greatest impact on students in the middle grades (before stereotypes are too deeply entrenched and high school courses are selected). Role Modeling provides students the opportunity to: meet and talk with women in different occupations become familiar with various aspects of work learn about educational requirements and personal aptitudes needed for success in the role model's given field. The Positive Impact of Role Models Cannot Be Underestimated Of the 700 elementary school children participating the 1986 Labor Canada research project entitled, "When I Grow Up...Career Expectations and Aspirations of Canadian School Children", only little boys from Baie-Comeau listed their first choice of career as "Prime-Minister." The report underscores the significance of a single role model in a community on page 26: "The influence of even a single role model came to light when it was noticed that the respondents in one of the communities in the province of Quebec were very likely to believe that future dentists would be either both men and women or women only. That particular community is served by a woman who specializes in children's dentistry." Other children in the study believed dentists would only be men.

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