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Gender equality training for HE and adult careers professionals, Reading

1. Mon 29 Mar 2010

   The UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (UKRC) is developing a new programme of gender equality training for careers professionals working with adults and in HE.

   The UKRC works with careers advice and guidance professionals in order to help address the issues which contribute to gender segregation in education and careers choices. They engage with key professionals throughout the guidance, learning and employment cycle, as well as with women themselves, in order to promote access to a wide range of career choices and to improve training and employment opportunities for women in science, engineering and technology (SET).

   Women are often unaware of the diverse and exciting opportunities available to them and may not consider taking up a non-traditional learning and career path for a variety of reasons. Careers advice and guidance professionals have a key role to play in offering balanced and well-informed advice, helping to dispel stereotypes and broadening the horizons of young women at crucial points in their educational careers. Similarly, advice and guidance to women returners to the job market is equally important to the directions they may choose and adult guidance professionals have a vital role in providing information to this important group.

   Aims and Objectives
   The workshop will run from 10.00 – 16.00 and will be highly interactive. All participants will receive a detailed folder with practical information, exercises and case studies.

   The aims of the programme will be to:
   raise awareness of:
   • the need for widening career choice for women
   • factors affecting entry into non-traditional careers for women
   • implicit and explicit stereotyping in careers guidance and education
   • reflect on strategies to overcoming gender stereotyping when offering guidance or information to girls and women

   At the end of the training session participants will be able to:
   • identify their own training needs with regard to gender equality in the service provided
   • identify the reason for the need to recruit more women into science, engineering and technology
   • identify the barriers which can prevent women from entering education and employment in SET
   • have a greater awareness of the range of SET careers and sources of LMI
   • understand and have strategies to implement support measures to overcome barriers
   • define and recognise attitudes which negatively affect the career choice of women
   • define and implement good practice in careers education for girls and women
   • identify and implement careers guidance that proactively contributes to desegregation in the labour market
   • identify good gender inclusive employment practices and utilise these in education and guidance work
   • identify and locate positive promotional careers information
   • share ideas to encourage girls and women to consider non-traditional occupations
   • have constructed an action plan which defines the future application of learning

   For further information or to book a place, contact Sarah Pemberton, Services for Women Coordinator (Careers & Employment), UKRC, on 01274 437168 or s.pemberton@ukrc4setwomen.org

   Date(s) & Timing	29 Mar 2010 10:00 16:00
   Venue	Reading
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