Feb 4, 2016 | Economic Security, Education, Leadership, Mentoring, Occupational Segregation, Political, State Initiatives, STEM, Talent Management, Vermont, Wage Gap, Work, Workplace Diversity
“At a recent press conference, Vermont Tech announced their initiative to tackle workforce development, economic development and gender equity by significantly increasing participation rates among women in several historically male-dominated fields. The college has set new annual female enrollment growth targets in civil and environmental engineering technology, computer information technology, computer software engineering, construction management, and mechanical engineering technology. The enrollment targets project annual growth of nearly 40%, each year for the next three years starting in the fall of 2016. By the end of the project term, Vermont Tech should realize an increase of female participation in these programs from 10% to 24%. The momentum of such growth and lessons learned from the activities of the project’s years should yield even greater participation rates beyond 2018.”
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Feb 3, 2016 | CTS in the news, STEM, Vermont
“The gender gap in science, technology, engineering and mathematics across the country is well documented. A new initiative at Vermont Technical College aims to change up the game.”
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Feb 3, 2016 | CTS in the news, Education, Mentoring, Occupational Segregation, Political, State Initiatives, STEM, Talent Management, Vermont, Wage Gap, Work, Workplace Diversity
“At a recent press conference, Vermont Tech announced their initiative to tackle workforce development, economic development and gender equity by significantly increasing participation rates among women in several historically male-dominated fields. The college has set new annual female enrollment growth targets in civil and environmental engineering technology, computer information technology, computer software engineering, construction management, and mechanical engineering technology. The enrollment targets project annual growth of nearly 40%, each year for the next three years starting in the fall of 2016. By the end of the project term, Vermont Tech should realize an increase of female participation in these programs from 10% to 24%. The momentum of such growth and lessons learned from the activities of the project’s years should yield even greater participation rates beyond 2018.”
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Feb 3, 2016 | CTS in the news, STEM, Vermont
“Holding a press conference at its Williston campus Wednesday, Vermont Tech announced its initiative to tackle workforce development, economic development and gender equity by significantly increasing participation rates among women in several historically male-dominated fields. The college has set new annual female enrollment growth targets in civil and environmental engineering technology, computer information technology, computer software engineering, construction management, and mechanical engineering technology. The enrollment targets project annual growth of nearly 40%, each year for the next three years starting in the fall of 2016. By the end of the project term, Vermont Tech should realize an increase of female participation in these programs from 10% to 24%. The momentum of such growth and lessons learned from the activities of the project’s years should yield even greater participation rates beyond 2018.”
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Dec 30, 2015 | STEM, Talent Management, Work, Workplace Diversity
“Recently, as we began to grow and ramp up our hiring, Sunil noticed that Buffer was seeing a very low percentage of female candidates for developer jobs—less than 2% of candidates…
…Although “clarity” is one of Buffer’s 10 values we strive to live every day, we definitely could have been doing a better job of paying attention to the connotation of every word in this case.
In putting together this post, I discovered that the wording for job descriptions is a challenge many organizations and candidates face.”
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Dec 30, 2015 | Occupational Segregation, STEM, Talent Management, Work, Workplace Diversity
“Etsy’s decision to pursue women engineers is indicative of a broader sea change: Making diversity a core value. But even after a number of concerted efforts to bring more female talent onboard, the company achieved almost no progress. In fact, in one year they actually saw a 35% decline in gender diversity even when it was a priority.”
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