Being a Student Parent: My Experience and How Policy Is Improving for Student Parents Today
By Ann DeMeulenaere Weedon As part of my work as [...]
A Clearer View of Poverty: How the Supplemental Poverty Measure Changes Our Perceptions of Who Is Living in Poverty
In response to concerns about the adequacy of the official federal poverty measure, a new Supplemental Poverty Measure was recently developed to more accurately assess poverty.
Rallying Together Around Issues Critical to Women and Families at NOW Conference 2012
IWPR staff and interns attended the NOW Conference in [...]
The Pink to Green Toolkit 5.5: Imperfect Pictures Roleplay
Use this tool as part of the activity described in session 3 of the facilitator guide. The roleplay exercise enables training participants to understand a real-world scenario involving sexual harassment and work through the issues involved.
The Pink to Green Toolkit 3.11: Building Successful Interviewing Skills for Apprenticeship and Construction Employment
BUILDING SUCCESSFUL INTERVIEWING SKILLS FOR APPRENTICESHIP AND CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYMENT
The Pink to Green Toolkit 4.1: Overview Presentation – Putting a Gender Lens on Training Curricula and Teaching
This tool is part of The Pink to Green Toolkit: Adding a Gender Lens to Green Jobs Training Programs, created by Wider Opportunities for Women for the GreenWays initiative.
The Pink to Green Toolkit 4.2: Curriculum Module – Building Cultural Competency and Respect for Diversity
The historical and social roots of the underrepresentation of women and minorities in the building trades create unique challenges to building a diverse construction workforce and equitable worksites. Supporting workers from under-utilized groups and ensuring a productive, cooperative workplace requires enhancing what is referred to as the “cultural competency” of all workers—that is, their skills in understanding and incorporating into their own lives the particular backgrounds of the diverse people with whom they work.
The Pink to Green Toolkit 4.3: Gender Equity Quiz
The Pink to Green Toolkit 4.3: Gender Equity Quiz
The Pink to Green Toolkit 4.4: Myths and Facts Exercise
This tool contains a worksheet of common myths that builds on the quiz from Tool 4.3 to address commonly misunderstood stereotypes. Fact sample responses are also included on a separate page.
