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BC program exposes high school girls to a future in skilled trades: "See it so you can be it"

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Parts of the Canadian economy are still hobbled by a shortage of skilled workers, and women are vastly under-represented in the trades.

The British Columbia Institute of Technology in Burnaby, B.C. is trying to change both by adopting a one-day event that started in Ontario ten years ago and has spread across the country.

The Jill of All Trades program hosted students from thirty-seven B.C. high schools across ten different school districts.

Global's Sharron Bates reports.

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