It is clear that vocational training in US high schools shows great
gender disparity.   For example,
www.nwlc.org/pdf/TitleIXCareerEducationReport.pdf reports that that
"female students make up 96% of the students enrolled in Cosmetology,
87% of the students enrolled in Child Care courses, and 86% of the
students enrolled in courses that prepare them to be Health Assistants
in every region in the country. Male students, on the other hand,
comprise 94% of the student body in training programs for plumbers and
electricians, 93% of the students studying to be welders or
carpenters, and 92% of those studying automotive technologies."

However, these statistics are for all high-school students, including
those who will not go on to college but will rather pursue the
vocations described above as a career.   My question concerns
differences in practical hands-on training among college-bound male
and female students.    By "college bound" I mean that they will go on
to attend two or more years of school at a 4-year institution (NOT
junior college).

(1) What fraction of college-bound male high school will take at least
one machine-shop-like class while in high school? By
"machine-shop-like" I mean a class such as machine shop, metal shop,
wood shop, carpentry, practical electronics, plumbing, automotive,
welding etc...

(2) Identical question as (1) except for female students.

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Clarification of Question by zaphodbeeblebrox-ga on 23 Aug 2004 07:00 PDT

I should clarify that what I mean by

(2)Identical question as (1) except for female students

is to ask "What fraction of college-bound female high school will take at least
one "machine-shop-like class" while in high school?" 

I am not particularly curious about what fraction of fe/male students
will take traditionally-female vocational classes.

I only am curious about the fraction of college-bound fe/male students
who will take traditionally-male vocational classes.

Thanks.