Special Populations
Nontraditional Training and Employment Resources
www.womentechworld.org provides biographies and news stories for over 50 women in a variety of nontraditional career roles, listed by occupational category, 40% are women of color.
The
U.S. Department of Education's Gender Equity Expert Panel
Exemplary and Promising Gender Equity Programs 2000
The U.S. Department of Education's Gender Equity Expert
Panel was developed to identify promising and exemplary
programs that promote gender equity in and through education
and as resources for educators and other community leaders
who want to use programs that have evidence that they can
increase gender equity.
Programs highlighted: career education, mathematics/ science/
technology, prevention of sexual and racial harassment,
and teacher education.
The full text of this publication ORAD 2001-1000 is available
online in Word or PDF format at http://www.ed.gov.. Go to
the home page topic index under: Expert Panels/Gender Equity
Expert Panel or Women's Education.
To order free print copies call toll free (877) 4ED-PUBS
(877-433-7827) or go to www.ed.gov/pubs/edpubs.html.
Other resources for career education are the 10 videos and 10 resource guides in the Her Own Words series on Women in Nontraditional Careers: Math at Work: Women in Nontraditional Careers Women in Construction Women in Dentistry Women in Engineering Women in Firefighting Women in Machining Women in Nontraditional Careers: An Introduction Women in Policing Women in Welding Work Talk: Women in Nontraditional Careers in Their Own Words All are available from: Her Own Words PO Box 5264 Madison WI 53705-0264 608-271-7083 phone 608-271-0209 fax website: herownwords.com Herownword@aol.com
Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science (IWITTS)
National Center for Education Statistics, http://www.nces.ed.gov/. Trends in Educational Equity of Girls & Women.
National Coalition for Equity in Education (NCEE)
Sexual
Harassment Guide for Schools, Students, and other Third
Parties (.pdf), 48 pages
U.S. DOL - Women's Bureau Home Page at http://www.dol.gov/dol/wb.
Nontraditional Occupations for Women in 2000, choose DOL agencies, then select Women's Bureau, then Non-Traditional.
Work4Women Resources List - (updates on resources are monthly at the websites listed at the bottom of the each resource).
August/September 2000 Publication List
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2000 Nontraditional Employment for Women Factsheet:
Wider Opportunities for Women
(202) 638-3143
Creating Opportunities for Students in Nontraditional
Training (brochure) National Alliance for Partnerships in
Equity
(610) 345-7155, mimilufkin@aol.com
Employer Manual, Workplace Solutions
Wider Opportunities for Women
(202) 638-3143
Futures [Recruitment and Retention Strategies (electronic
presentation) http://www.iwitts.com/html/powerpoint.html
Institute for Women in Trades, Technology & Science
(510) 749-0200, http://www.iwitts.com/
Her Own Words (video series about women working in
NTOs) http://www.HerOwnWords.com
Her Own Words
608-271-7083, herownword@aol.com
If I Had A Hammer: Women's Work in Poetry, Fiction and
Photographs
Wider Opportunities for Women
(202) 638-3143
Jobs That Pay! Nontraditional Occupations for the 21st
Century (guide) Women Work!
(202) 467-6346, womenwork@womenwork.org
Making Ourselves a Home
(Interviews with women working in NTOs)
Wider Opportunities for Women
(202) 638-3143
Union Manual, Workplace Solutions
Wider Opportunities for Women
(202) 638-3143
Pioneering: Poems from the Construction Site
Susan Eisenberg (author), Cornell Press (publisher)
607-277-2338 ext. 251 or ext. 254,
cupress-sales@cornell.edu.
Work4Women Catalog (NTO books, videos, work apparel,
tools)
Wider Opportunities for Women
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What Every Women Needs to Know about MONEY and RETIREMENT: A Simple Guide, was created by the Women's Institute for a Secure Retirement (WISER). This guide offers practial and comprehensive advice on retirement planning and answers questions ranging from pension benefits to IRAs. To order free copies while supplies last, call Women Work! at (202) 467-6346 or e-mail at womenwork@womenwork.org
Women's
Bureau Home Page
http://www.dol.gov/wb
