at the infocentre,

; AVE.

“Women

) work horizons

TERRACE — Economic cir-
cumstances are forcing more
women into what used to be
considered men’s jobs, says a
person who gave a workshop
‘on the subject tast week,
“Traditional women’s oc-
cupations pay lower wages.
A family can’t survive on $5

Dr. Norma Kerby.
Her one-day workshop
was part of a a job re-entry

the Terrace Women's
Resource Centre. Thirty-five
people attended.

' “We've become a two-
Wage economy, In cases of
single parents, a one-wage
economy,”' Kerby continued
on reasons why women are
expanding their role in the
workforce,

panded employment oppor-
tunities may require physical
labour, shift work or being
away from home, Kerby said
higher pay is @ benefit.
*"Women say if they make
the money, they don't mind
it. If you're making $5 or 38
an hour by the time you pay

with the cost of transporta-
tion, it’s not worth it,”” said

Kerby,
[ Overall, Kerby said there's

“Chamber

“TERRACE * — + Terrace and
| ‘Manager Bobbie ° Phillips has
‘provincial: association 4

_chamber managers,” .
British Columbia’ Chamber

the province and will: soon
four more to its Talls. .

commerce in the province and
Phillips last week.

The executive group has more
members than does: the provin-

‘District ‘Chamber of Commerce

Executives ‘represents: managers: s
of 86 chambers of ; ‘Commerce in: -

“There are 110. chambers of

about 95 have. managers,” said .

} manager -
adds. to her job —

cial association representing

: oe of commerce, she ad- —
been ‘named’ president ‘of ‘the:

for information and advice,

:, The group will have its. 1992 .
“annual general meeting here -[

“next September. : .
:, "Named as vice president. of
“the group is Gail Guise,
Manager of the Kitimat .

Chamber of Commerce,

Phillips has been manager of :
the Terrace chamber . for: ‘five .

and half years.

Phillips said the : éxecutive |
~,,BFOUp acts as a clearinghouse

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B. C. TEL employee Vida Carson demonstrates her job to peo-
ple taking at a one- day session on non-traditional accupations’ -
for women last week, Carson's beer with B.C: Tel for 11 and °-
half years, the last 10 of which have been as an Installer and -
repairer. She’s one of two women in that job in Terrace.

an hour, an individual canis +: '
survive on $5 an hour,” syria Attitudes, n-th. porthy I

project being undertaken by -

’ list the advantages and disad- .
And even though those ex- |

‘to: indicate that working
. women remain responsible
‘for 70-90 per cent of

a babysitter, buy clothes and

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an increasing blurring of the
lines between what used to be
men’s jobs and women’s
jobs.

The north has been a bit
behind because of the tradi-

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tional reliance on high pay-
ing resource industry jobs
that employed men, she said.
«But. that's : : changing. as; jf

the ‘circumstances’ ‘of *
northern: -women change,’
Kerby added.

‘“In construction, logging

and mining, you can see the
difference every year in the
numbers of women
employed,” she said,

Yet before women. con-
template a new job or a
career in what was once con-
sidered. a male-only occupa-
tion, Kerby. advises them to

vantages. -

“They should evaluate’
themselves as to what their
abilities are, on the impact
on their homes and what
their tolerance levels are,’’
said Kerby,

Home support — the help
of their partner — is impor-
tant because studies continue.

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TERRACE — There were 400
fewer stops at the chamber of
commerce’s infocentre betweem

; April and September of this

tourist season than in 1990, ;
The total, 5,118 inquiries

_ Compared to 5,578 last year,

reflected a low July tally, said

‘chamber manager Bobbie. -
~ Phillips.

“This year we had 1,373 in-
quiries but there were !,581 last
July,” said Phillips.

The August figure of 1,504
was down: by only four from
last year, she'added,
~ Those figures, mark ‘inquiries
not the

number of people who stopped.

’- in, That means a single tourist is”
- marked as one stop-in the same: .
’ way that a tour bus is.

Tourism operators in the area

” ‘gpid tourism was down this year.
> pecause of the lack of fish; oe
fishing fees. for-out of province: uk

* visitors and the GST.

kaki

federally-financed . office that.

-of Prince George. - i.
The company has been
declared insolvent after it could

not pay debts.
Ter. eS

Also closed down and going -
into receivership is Terrace

Taco.

Opened several years ago as ao
storefront: operation . ‘preparing .
Mexican food and: sandwiches,
Terrace Taco this spring opened
a retail fast food. outlet in

premises once occupied by’ Ken-
tucky Fried Chicken: ++; ~:
-The outlet has been closed for.

- several ‘weeks When the business -

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