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The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.2 : Adding a Gender Lens to Green Jobs Training Programs Part 1

This presentation introduces the benefits of green, nontraditional jobs for women.

By Wider Opportunities for Women|2020-12-14T02:08:24-05:00July 1, 2012|IWPR|Comments Off on The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.2 : Adding a Gender Lens to Green Jobs Training Programs Part 1

The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.6: Planning a Career Fair for Improving Women’s Access to Green Jobs

If your program is planning a career fair for women, review this checklist and include as many of these suggestions as possible as you prepare and hold your event.

By Wider Opportunities for Women|2020-12-11T02:53:56-05:00July 1, 2012|IWPR|Comments Off on The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.6: Planning a Career Fair for Improving Women’s Access to Green Jobs

The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.8: Outreach and Recruitment Workplan to Attract and Engage Women Applicants

Use this tool to create a blueprint and timeline for your program’s outreach, recruitment, and assessment strategy. The template provides a single resource to document and track multiple program goals and objectives, responsible staff, activities, measurable outcomes, and time spent on each activity.

By Wider Opportunities for Women|2020-12-11T02:15:56-05:00July 1, 2012|IWPR|Comments Off on The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.8: Outreach and Recruitment Workplan to Attract and Engage Women Applicants

The Pink to Green Toolkit 3.10: Interviewing for the Construction Industry – Preparing Women to be Competitive Candidates

Occupational training participants can use this tool to prepare themselves for interviews.

By Wider Opportunities for Women|2020-12-11T02:33:00-05:00July 1, 2012|IWPR|Comments Off on The Pink to Green Toolkit 3.10: Interviewing for the Construction Industry – Preparing Women to be Competitive Candidates

The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.7: Considering a Career in the Building Trades

Would you be surprised to learn that Latina women earn an average of only 60 percent of men’s wages? Use this quiz in an orientation or information session to prompt awareness about the need for women to have access to jobs in traditionally higher paid, male-dominated blue-collar careers

By Wider Opportunities for Women|2020-12-11T02:23:59-05:00July 1, 2012|IWPR|Comments Off on The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.7: Considering a Career in the Building Trades

The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.1: Adding a Gender Lens to Green Jobs Training Programs

Would you be surprised to learn that Latina women earn an average of only 60 percent of men’s wages? Use this quiz in an orientation or information session to prompt awareness about the need for women to have access to jobs in traditionally higher paid, male-dominated blue-collar careers.

By Wider Opportunities for Women|2020-12-11T03:03:16-05:00July 1, 2012|IWPR|Comments Off on The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.1: Adding a Gender Lens to Green Jobs Training Programs

Getting Started: A Handbook to Address Economic Security for Survivors

A Handbook to Address Economic Security for Survivors is a step-by-step tool for transitional housing professionals on how to comprehensively address the economic security of survivors.

By Wider Opportunities for Women|2021-01-07T01:34:23-05:00June 1, 2012|IWPR|Comments Off on Getting Started: A Handbook to Address Economic Security for Survivors

Coming Up Short: Wages, Public Assistance and Economic Security Across America

The US economy has been growing since mid-2009. And yet, unemployment remains high, wages remain stagnant, and the Great Recession continues for millions of American families. Federal public debt is at an all time high, and states with budget shortfalls must balance their budgets.

By Wider Opportunities for Women|2020-11-11T23:25:57-05:00April 1, 2011|IWPR|Comments Off on Coming Up Short: Wages, Public Assistance and Economic Security Across America

Economic Insecurity in America: Who Lacks Economic Security?

Wider Opportunities for Women compared working-age adults’ household incomes to The Basic Economic Security Tables (BEST) for the United States, a measure of the basic needs and assets workers require for economic security.

By Wider Opportunities for Women|2020-11-11T23:25:05-05:00January 1, 2011|IWPR|Comments Off on Economic Insecurity in America: Who Lacks Economic Security?