text: Department of Trade and Industry to encourage girls to choose non-traditional careers in industry, administration, engineering and information technology were laudable. The question of teacher training was very important; it would be interesting to know the results of the programme designed to prevent future teachers from indulging in preconceptions based on a pupil's sex, and to know what sort of training was provided to teachers with responsibility for sex education. 11. Ms. SAYOGYO asked whether new measures had been taken to encourage women to engage in more intensive professional training, particularly in areas so far dominated by men. Article 11 12. Ms. DIALLO SOUMARE asked whether the situation of women in the private sector - which was the predominante sector in the United Kingdom - had been studied to determine the extent of women's integration into the working environment and the sorts of constraints to which their presence gave rise. She wished to know what measures had been taken to apply the Convention in the United Kingdom's highly conservative agricultural sector. 13. Ms. GUAN Minaian, referring to the report's section on unemployment, said that she was pleased to learn that the unemployment rate was lower for women than for men. She also wished to know whether the policy of deregulation introduced with a view to encouraging employers to create jobs was of beneficial effect for women. 14. Ms. FORDE asked, also on the subject of unemployment, whether the rate indicated in the report was equally applicable to immigrant women or those belonging to a minority, or whether separate statistics were compiled for that group of women. 15. Ms. TALLAWY said that, despite the adoption of the Equal Pay Act of 1970, there was still a considerable disparity between the remuneration received by women 
analysis: The text appears to focus on issues related to women's employment, education, and equality, with a specific emphasis on encouraging girls to pursue non-traditional careers and addressing disparities in pay and integration in the workforce. The questions also touch on the impact of policy decisions, such as deregulation, on women's employment.