NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING PROGRAM (NET): ENDING GENDER OCCUPATIONAL DOMINATION
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AT A GLANCE: BEST PRACTICES

  • Promote flexible scheduling of classes and meetings with advisors with weekend and evening availability 
  • Facilitate collaboration between two-year and four-year institutions
  • Provide mentoring programs to school aged children that will help overcome barriers of gender discrimination and inspire individuals from a young age. Start early!
  • Showcase role-models and their success stories. Have role models serve as support systems to decrease feelings of isolation.
  • Provide financial assistance, tutoring, childcare, and job placements.
  • Provide a straightforward and simple application with good and easy to reach customer service.
  • Promote the benefits of nontraditional occupations, such as social relevance, higher wages, economic self-sufficiency, job satisfaction and broader
    opportunities.
  • Provide face to face academic and career counseling.
  • Use media to your advantage in running a recruitment campaign, send out press releases to local media outlets.
  • Place nontraditional opportunities for women in women magazines and vice versa for men.
  • Provide orientations, internships, and job shadowing.
  • Ensure equitable training for both male and female employees.
  •  Adopt a proactive approach to incidents of sexual harassment.
  • Provide teachers' trainings to address unconscious bias.
  • Evaluate the curricula to de-gender contents and address bias.
  • Develop recruitment messages that are de-gendered.
  • Use social media and information and communication technologies to reach younger and older audience.
  • Build partnerships with businesses and community organizations to strengthen outreach.
  • Evaluate, evaluate, evaluate! What gets evaluated gets done!
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Contact NET
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Center for Women in Government & Civil Society
University at Albany, Richardson 291
135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222
[email protected], 518.442.5127

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  • NET for Faculty & Staff
    • NET Webinars
    • Best Practices: At A Glance
    • Mentoring CTE Students
    • Implementation & Evaluation Plans
    • Leadership & Management of CTE Programs
    • Promoting Resilience in CTE
    • Inclusive & Equitable Classroom & Campus Spaces
    • Using Communication Technologies
    • Technical Support Form
  • NET for Students & Parents
    • ASK NET
  • Helpful Links