Use these proven strategies to recruit women to technology.
35 Career Videos of Women in Male-Dominated Fields Read More... These 35 outstanding career videos featuring women in traditionally male jobs will inspire your female students to enter exciting technology, trades and science occupations! Career Options for Women: Emerging Opportunities will introduce your female students to 35 high-wage career areas ranging from Automotive to Engineering to Robotics and Automation. Each DVD reveals the personal experiences and insights of successful women in technology and trades occupations. They send the message that the sky is the limit to women and girls!
Case Study: High School Automotive Teacher Has Continued Success Recruiting and Retaining Girls Download PDF Now Phillip Jelinek, Automotive teacher at Monrovia High School in Monrovia, California is passional about recruiting and retaining women in Automotive Technology. In 2007, 10 of his 125 students were female. In his 21 years of teaching this class, he has always had between 3 and 13 girls in his classes. When asked whether he had such successes because of certain strategies, he said that he didn't intentionally employ any particular ones. However, after speaking with him for just an hour, it was clear that he uses very specific recruitment and retention strategies.
Case Study: Louisiana Truck Driving Program Actively Recruiting Women Download PDF Now Out of the 138 graduates of the two-year old Trucking program at Louisiana Technical College's Lafourche Campus, 26 are women (18% versus the national average of 7%). This is because Louisiana Technical College has made a specific effort to recruit women to their program.
Posters of Women in Trades, Technology and Engineering See the Posters in the WomenTechStore.com Our Think Women Can’t Be? Think Again! Poster series featuring women in trades, technology and engineering careers are perfect for your school's classrooms, counseling offices and the hallways. Sold in a set of 7, these large colorful posters include women in such occupations as Automotive Technicians, Mechanical Engineers, Welders, Chemical Engineers, and many more!
The Women in Technology Project is administered by the Maui Economic Development Board and funded in part by the U.S. Department of Labor.
Scigirls DVDs and Activity Guides: Science For Girls, By Girls Preview SciGirls Videos and Activity Guides at WomenTechStore.com DragonflyTV's SciGirls feature a group of hip, racially diverse girls from around the country having fun with science and getting down and dirty while explaining and demonstrating science concepts and serving as role models for your female students. Over four hours of videos, a 15-minute teacher-training case study, 18 profiles of female scientists, and 2 corresponding full color activity guides are available.
The Women in Technology Project is administered by the Maui Economic Development Board and funded in part by the U.S. Department of Labor.
WomenTech Best Practices CD Read More... The WomenTech Best Practices CD s a step-by-step guide chock full of winning strategies for recruiting and retaining women into your school's technology programs. Based on the successful National Science Foundation WomenTech Project, this attractive, colorful, multi-media CD has tips, real-life examples and sample materials to help you quickly enhance your own recruitment and retention activities. There's even ten minutes of video footage of a Women Tech Career Expo, and lots of photos throughout. You'll easily navigate through the user-friendly CD, that works like a website, to develop a blueprint for your own school. The five sections - Recruitment, Retention, Employers, Institutionalization and Institutional Assessment - each contain how-to advice and sample materials you can easily tailor to fit your own school's needs.
The CalWomenTech Project is Funded by The Program for Research on Gender in Science and Engineering from The National Science Foundation - Grant no. 0533564
