Surviving and Thriving
A Canadian Perspective on Women in Trades and Technology and Employment Equity

Copies are still available of this book of presentations and workshops of the first major Canadian conference on women in trades and technology and employment equity, which took place in October, 1988. The ideas and practical applications describes still document leading edge activities for these current issues.

Providing information, insights and perspectives not available elsewhere, this book would be a useful text for pre-trades and technology courses for women, essential background knowledge for instructors; and practical approached for employers, employment equity practitioners and others concerned with these issues.

Especially for those WITT-women, and others who could not attend the weekend sessions of tradeswomen and technologist, the workshops on "What Happened Once We Got Our Tickets," "Overcoming Isolation," Sharing Our Union Experience," "Language Styles, Stress and Macho," Gender Talk" provide significant and fascinating insights into the experiences of women working in these fields today. This material can also be used effectively in program development for implementing Employment Equity initiatives.

The most useful and practical workshops from the second two days of the conference were also edited for the book. Employers, educators, consultants, government and union representatives, and women workers in the field participated in the included sessions: From Task Force to Implementation - Ontario Hydro's approach to integrating their Trades, Technical and Operators (TTO) workforce Seniority and Employment Equity and EE: Consultative Process Models in a Unionized Environment - thoughtful explorations of those most difficult topics Bridging Programs for Industry - Toronto's Bridges program for clerical worker's entry into trades and technology Court Orders: What Then? - a dynamic description and lively discussion with CN Rail and the new York Sheetmetal Workers Union

Community Based Training initiatives are addressed in four separate and unique program descriptions
  • Women Working Inc - out of Manitoba
  • The Bain/Goerge Brown Housing Renovation Project
  • Winnipeg Core Area Initiative
  • West End Machining
Innovations and great ideas for encouraging women and girls in science, math and technology are explored in a variety of sessions
  • The Women Inventor's Project
  • Over Coming Math Anxiety
  • Strategies for Encouraging Young Girls in Math and Science
This valuable and long overdue practical approach to the issues facing us today in implementing Employment Equity and using the full potential of women in Trades, Technical and Operations jobs. It is available for $20 (Cdn.) plus G.S.T from Kootenay Women in Trades and Technology Association, RR #1 Winlaw British Columbia, V0G 2J0, 604-226-7624

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