Women in Construction/Auto Diversity & Inclusion Banners

Are you ready to see more female students in your trades classes? Buy these banners today and you can get started right away with proven, off-the-shelf recruitment materials that will help women and girls picture themselves in trades career pathways.

These banners will help make your career events more appealing to prospective female students. Plus, hang the banners year-round in your school's classrooms, hallways, libraries, and around campus to send the message that women are welcome and can succeed in these careers.

Attract women to your table at career events with our banners featuring bold and vibrant women working in Construction and Auto careers.

Antigone Sharris, the coordinator of the Engineering Technology program at Triton College in Illinois, is passionately committed to increasing the number of female students in her program. She displayed IWITTS banners at a career awareness event for high school students. Antigone says, "I've started using the 'Women in Engineering' banner. It is working to get the females to come over and talk about careers in engineering!!"

Are your recruitment and career events appealing to women and girls? Banners featuring female role models on the job work wonders in getting more female students interested in your CTE programs, just like they did for Antigone. You can also hang them in your schools' classrooms, hallways, and around campus to send the message that women can and do succeed in these careers.

Women bring a different perspective to the classroom and the workplace. Don't let them miss out on the possibility of a high paying career in STEM and CTE. It's up to you to show them what they could achieve and help them see themselves in these careers.

"There was a big difference in how we recruited for our 1st cohort of Pre-Apprentices—which had no women—and our 2nd cohort that had 7. We thought it would be a lot easier than it turned out to be. The first time we partnered with community-based organizations to help us with recruitment, but after the WomenTech Training I realized we weren't welcoming to women.

The WomenTech Training gave us a robust Version 2.0 Outreach Strategy. We had an entire platform and the messaging including: a Women and Automotive website, flyers featuring female role models, and a fact sheet with talking points about why automotive and apprenticeship is a good field for women. Plus, we had 3 Women in Automotive Meet & Greets with female automotive technicians.

The knowledgebase that IWITTS provided us on how to build an outreach strategy that targeted women helped us to tap existing resources within the college and led to our great results—from 0 to 7 women in the Automotive Pre-Apprenticeship program in 2.5 months.”

~ Monique Forster Pascual, Director of Apprenticeship & Instructional Service Agreements, Workforce Development, CCSF, CA hosted a 2018 WomenTech Educators Onsite Training: Customized to Automotive, Apprenticeship, Grant Goals and Timeline, and created the Outreach Platform including Banners.