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About Hard Hatted Women (HHW)
OUR MISSION:
To empower women to achieve economic independence, by creating workplace
diversity in trade and technical careers.
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Hard Hatted Women
• Founded in 1979 by 3 women - a steelworker, truck driver and a telephone repair technician
• HHW today is recognized for its leadership in helping women and girls explore, pursue and excel in high wage, nontraditional careers
Nontraditional = any career with 25% or less
of one gender (defined by USDOL)
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Why HHW?Building strong families and communities
• 80% of women are clustered in 20 of 420 occupational fields. (source: Women Work!)
• In 2007, more than 50% of poor families in the U.S. were headed by single women. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau
• Nontraditional employment for women is an “underutilized but effective strategy” for addressing poverty (Source: The Center for Women’s Welfare, The Ohio Association of Community Action Agencies)
HHW empowers women and families to escape the poverty trap.
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HHW Results
• Creation, testing and replication of national best practices
• Since 1992 HHW has trained over 500 women– Women come to HHW with little experience and few skills– 2/3 are single parents, over half are low-income, highly diverse– Graduates today are electricians, highway maintenance workers,
landscapers, laborers, carpenters, salt miners, engineers, iron workers, bricklayers, truck drivers and in many other fields.
• In 2007 HHW extended its services throughout Ohio
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Why Specialized Recruitment?
• An aging workforce in skilled trades• Traditional worker not entering skilled trades • Planned retirement, slowed by economy, will
happen dramatically as economy improves.
• National stimulus investments are increasing the need for trained and skilled workers
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act• Emerging green economy• Diversity requirements and enforcement tightened
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Reaching untapped labor pools
Get your energy workforce ahead of the game– Understand the challenges– Dedicate resources– Build strong alliances
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Understand the Challenges
• Recognize the barriers women face. • Lack of knowledge about nontraditional careers• Lack of skill base to be successful (especially in math).• Practical problems to being successful on the job
» transportation, child care and elder care issues • Concern about hiring biases and sexual harassment • Steadiness of work (last hired/first laid off)• Isolation on the job
– Free HHW Toolkit for recruitment and retention of women in skilled trades, available at www.hardhattedwomen.org
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Dedicate Resources
• Start early: Conduct outreach at middle and high school level.
• Outline wages and benefits, including retirement• Target recruitment/ materials
– Represent women in recruiting materials/brochure– Show women the connection between their work and its
community value. • e.g. being a line technician brings electricity to homes;
electricity brings warmth, food, and comfort.– Use female and minority role model speakers
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Dedicate Resources
• If you have female & minority workers in targeted fields, let them be your spokespeople!
• Create or support mentorship programs, with company employees if possible– Mentors can “talk them off the wall” or provide guidance
through a career pathway– Women have stated this is one of the most important
services they value
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Build Strong Alliances
• Partner with your local Workforce Investment Board (WIB)• Partner with community agencies
• Tradeswomen organizations like HHW• YWCA, Job Corps, Community Action Agencies, Youth
Build, churches can connect you to untapped labor pools• Communicate your commitment to gender diversity to
training providers, including:• Adult technical and joint vocational schools• Community colleges and others
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Model Partnership: American Electric Power and HHW
• Pilot to recruit 2 women into a power technology internship – HHW helps AEP’s HR department tailor recruitment
materials and efforts, and to implement strategies– AEP recruits mentors; HHW trains mentors– HHW provides supportive services as needed
• Working with two universities in targeted region
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Other Resources
• Hard Hatted Women
http://www.hardhattedwomen.org/links.asp• Wider Opportunities for Women
http://www.wowonline.org/• Tradeswomen Now and Tomorrow
http://www.tradeswomennow.org/• US DOL Women’s Bureau
http://www.dol.gov/wb/
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THANK YOU!
For more information contact
Terri Burgess Sandu
Executive Director, Hard Hatted Women
Phone: 216-861-6500, ext. 14
Email: [email protected]