Women Into Non-traditional
Sectors (WINS)
WINS' application supports
women into employment who are currently excluded from the labour
market as a result of occupational segregation and other barriers,
including lack of childcare, low educational attainment, discrimination
on the basis of race, disability or sexual orientation.
Women remain under-represented
across many occupational areas, often deterred by either gender
stereotyping, which pressures women into particular occupations,
or negative images that surround jobs in these sectors.
The project specifically aims
to:
• Undertake research
to identify means to combat attitudes that inhibit women’s
entry to and progression within partner organisations;
• Provide a bespoke empowerment programme for 2 cohorts
of 20 women as a means of developing employability;
• Provide an employment taster for 40 women, the results
of which will help support the integration of women into non-traditional
employment through the adoption of new working practices; and
• Influence policy at local, national and European level
through the dissemination of results.
Development Partnership
Members:
- Belfast
City Council
- Translink
- Northern Ireland Housing Executive
- Construction Industry Training Board
- Department for Employment and Learning
- Department for Social Development – Social Security Agency
- Equality Commission for Northern Ireland
- HELM Corporation
- Training for Women Network
- Women’s TEC
- Belfast GEMS
- Northern Ireland Committee, Irish Congress of Trade Unions
- Queen’s University Belfast
WINS is a member of
the North
South Equal and the Horizon
Crossing Transnational Partnerships which also include partners
in:
- Republic of Ireland
- Germany
- The Netherlands
Contact:
Isaac May
Belfast City Council
City Hall, Room 49
Belfast
BT1 5GS
Tel: +44.(0)28.9037 3004
Fax: +44.(0)28.9027 0325
E-mail: mayi@belfastcity.gov.uk
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