Need to recruit more women to your community college’s manufacturing program? You’ll love this …Â
I’m working with a Robotics Manufacturing Program in a community college in the Northeast. Like many manufacturing programs, they are under-enrolled despite the excellent high-demand career opportunities. Even worse, they have very few women – and are in deep need of enrolling more.
So, for their WomenTech Training, I re-reviewed the literature on women in manufacturing – and dug up a true gemstone that will help them enroll more women, which also means more students in general.Â
The gemstone is this excellent 64-page report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, published in November 2023. In the survey that informs this report, 442 women give a treasure trove of unfiltered information about what attracted them into manufacturing programs.Â
. From their highly-specific responses, you’ll learn:
What attracts women to manufacturingÂ
How women heard about a program in the first placeÂ
What causes women to leaveÂ
… and a whole lot moreÂ
If you’re working to recruit and/or retain more women in manufacturing education or industry, this is a highly-valuable, enlightening, must-read report.