Dear WiMST attendees (and those that were interested),
Thanks to everyone for attending the Women in Mfg Skilled Trades symposium on Friday. I feel it was a strong start to discussing this important issue and hope that everyone came away with something they could use in their day-to-day work. A few
things:
1) I’ve added your email to a Listserv (
WIMST@BayAreaManufacturing.simplelists) which I will use to send out information about this topic (you can unsubscribe at anytime at the
bottom of the email).
- Note: I’m limiting it so that I’m the only one that can send to it so you don’t get spam. If you feel there's something useful to get out to the group, please email me and I’ll send
out if relevant and useful (as Bobby Brown would say, it’s “My Prerogative” ;-)
2) There was a request to share names of attendees. If you would prefer NOT to have your name shared, please let me know by Wednesday and I’ll remove your name from the list.
3) As an example of the type of info I plan on sending out, here’s something you might find interesting:
- a
Harvard research study about use of wording
in job postings, and its impact on how women and men perceive the job based on the words used.
- “[A]dvertisements for stereotypically male jobs had more masculine wording, which led women to 1) think more men
worked there, 2) believe they would not belong in that position, and 3) find the job less appealing… These differences due to subtle language differences in how jobs are advertised may help explain the on-going gender gap in historically male-dominated fields.”
-
Free Decoder that you can use to input your job posting and see how it fares. Here’s a
company that sells a more sophisticated tool for writing job postings.
That’s it for now. Enjoy.
Regards,
Mark