Vocational Training Facilities for Women in Montreal

An examination of vocational training ("the acquisition of skills with a labour-market value") facilities for women in Montreal in the late 1930s. Among the facilities examined by the author were: Normal schools and nurses' training schools, as well as social work and librarianship. The author also examines other professions that were either open to women, but had few women practitioners, or where women were denied access. For example, in the late 1930s, of the 2,000 accountants in Montreal, only 80 were women; of the 200 architects in Montreal, only one was a woman; there were 800 male lawyers in the city, but only four women lawyers. These four female lawyers were prohibited admittance to the bar, which was restricted to men. In medicine, there were less than twenty women practicing out of 1,200 doctors in the city. Three women were practicing dentistry in Montreal, but women were barred from entrance to pharmaceutical schools in the city.

Master's Thesis

McGill University

Montreal

1938

viii-293p.

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