Footnote_30 :

Calculated from Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, AFL-CIO-CLC, Canadian District Council. Moncton, New Brunswick, October 29-30, 1979 (mimeo); and from CALURA. The 17 per cent figure is based on 115 of the 157 delegates (73 per cent) whose gender could be determined.