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
Cecil Ward Building
4-10 Linenhall Street
Belfast
BT2 8BP
Tel: +44.(0)28.9037 3004
Fax: +44.(0)28.9027 0325
E-mail: mayi@belfastcity.gov.uk
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