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@The_Seldom_Killer
The barriers start at school age. There's still a lot of gender bias in teaching which directly affects what sort of post school decisions women will make.
By the time you get to the hiring stage, the competition from women for positions that familiarity is probably one of the greatest forces working against women getting employment.
I'm not sure what "the industry" can do as a whole. The majority of mechanics are employed in a commercial setting and the majority of that is small, independent businesses. I'm not aware of any bodies offering oversight of those businesses as a regulatory or membership organisation.
Where to start?
Approach BC and any women's trade teams to offer traineeships to women riders and at a minimum aim to have all women riders supported by a female mechanic.