NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING: TOWARDS A GENDER INTEGRATED WORKFORCE

aT A GLANCE: BEST PRACTICES

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  • 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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University at Albany, Draper Hall, 312
135 Western Avenue, Albany, NY 12222
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  • What is NET?
  • VANGUARD AWARDS
    • 2023 Vanguard Award Winners
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    • 2025 Vanguard Awards
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  • NET for Faculty & Staff
    • BEST PRACTICES: AT A GLANCE
    • Mentoring CTE Students
    • IMPLEMENTATION & EVALUATION PLANS
    • LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
    • PROMOTING RESILIENCE
    • INCLUSIVE & EQUITABLE CLASSROOMS
    • USING COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES
  • HELPFUL LINKS
  • NET Webinars