WOMEN-IN-HOCKEY Digest 267

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Numbers of female hockey players in Canadian provinces
	by email@hidden (Louise C. Mallory)

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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 19:27:24 -0400
From: email@hidden (Louise C. Mallory)
To: email@hidden, Subscribers to 
Subject: Numbers of female hockey players in Canadian provinces
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 Andria Hunter wrote:

>Here are the number of males and females who were registered
>for hockey in each province during the 1994-95 season.  The
>overall ratio of females to males in Canada was 1:25.
>
>  --------------------------------------------------
>  |                      |  94-95    94-95   94-95 | f:m
>  | Province             |   BOTH     Male  Female | ratio
>  |----------------------|-------------------------|
>  | British Columbia     |  48021    46344    1677 | 1:27.6
>  | Alberta              |  56981    55183    1798 | 1:30.7
>  | Sask.                |  32187    31587     600 | 1:52.6  -- low
>  | Manitoba             |  26555    25304    1251 | 1:20.2
>  | Ontario              | 184694   175197    9497 | 1:18.4
>  | Quebec               | 107279   105071    2208 | 1:47.6
>  | New Brunswick        |  16333    15832     501 | 1:31.6
>  | Nova Scotia          |  15520    14641     879 | 1:16.7  -- high
>  | Prince Edward Island |   4872     4603     269 | 1:17.1
>  | Newfoundland         |  10830    10460     370 | 1:28.3
>  | WHL                  |    370                  |
>  |----------------------|-------------------------|
>  | TOTALS               | 503642   484592   19050 | 1:25.4 Overall
>  --------------------------------------------------

It's probably worth pointing out that only in Ontario is there a separate
governing body for female hockey.  It would be very enlightening to see the
numbers of female players in each province divided into those who play
female hockey and those who play integrated hockey.  I know that a very
high majority of the female players in Ontario play female hockey, and it
would be interesting to see whether this trend were consistent in Nova
Scotia and Prince Edward Island.


Another data point with exciting implications, from the other side of the
border:  in Minnesota last season, there were more female teams in the
12&under division, than in either the 15&under division or the 19&under
division.  To me that has lots of promise for the future of our sport, and
shows that more little girls play, when they have the chance to play on
girls' teams.

Louise Mallory

*       Louise                                                        *
*  "No-one said it would be easy; no-one thought we'd come this far." *
*                                                  -Sheryl Crow       *



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