Wire a Light: A Workshop Designed to Increase Apprentice Diversity
Read about how this simple strategy increased participation of women and men of color in IBEW/NECA local 48’s apprenticeship program.
Women’s Committees: A Key to Recruiting and Retaining Women Apprentices
Read about how women’s committees are supporting recruitment and retention of women in apprenticeship.
Forging Gender Equity in the Sheet Metal Workers Local 28: The Importance of Leadership, goals and Regular Review
Led by Leah Rambo, a veteran sheet metal worker and the program’s first female apprenticeship director, local 28 has seen dramatic improvements in women’s participation in apprenticeship, increasing the overall percentage from 3 percent at the beginning of 2011 to 11 percent in 2017, and achieving a rate of 16% for new apprentices entering the program in 2017.
Bridging the Gender Gap: Creating a National Pre-apprenticeship Program to Prepare Women for the Iron Working Industry
A highly skilled trade, unionized ironworkers begin their careers as apprentices, benefiting from a combination of on-the-job training and related classroom instruction. Over the course of a three-year apprenticeship, an ironworker in Chicago will go from an hourly wage of $27.72 to $46.20. A hefty benefit package adds almost another $35 per/hr. to cover health and retirement benefits.
Winter 2018 Quarterly Newsletter
In October at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) released a new report, Tackling Child Care: The Business Case for Employer-Supported Child Care, researched and co-authored by IWPR. Panelists, including Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, and Ram Kumar Gupta, Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Employment in India, noted that the inclusion of child care on the agenda of the Annual Meetings, attended by finance ministers, business leaders, and other senior government officials, reflects considerable progress toward equality for women.
IWPR’s Top 10 Research Findings of 2017
For IWPR, this year emphasized, at a basic level, the [...]
Decline in Retail Jobs Felt Entirely by Women
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the December employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) establishment survey finds that, over the last year (November 2016 - November 2017), women gained fewer jobs than men: women gained 985,000, while men gained 1,086,000 jobs.
IWPR Research News Roundup – December 2017
RESEARCH MAKING THE NEWS Women are better in tech than [...]
What We’re Reading Today (12/8)
Each morning, IWPR’s @landewatson compiles articles on gender, race, economics, and [...]
The Status of Women in Hawaii
Women in Hawai‘i have a distinct history, culture, and identity that shapes their status in ways that differ from other states. In the United States overall, the largest racial and ethnic groups are White, Hispanic, and Black, accounting for over 90 percent of the population of women of all ages in the country.
