Policy Initiatives
Our Purpose
Hard Hatted Women works to ensure that women, minorities and other traditionally disadvantaged populations have access to opportunities in high-wage, skilled careers in the construction industry through training, support and advocacy. Hard Hatted Women works to implement systems that will impact the success of not only a project, but of all stakeholders, through partnerships which create an environment of diversity, inclusion and opportunity. By providing tools which combat harassment and discrimination against workers on the basis of gender, race, sexual orientation or age, and advocating for policy change on issues affecting women in nontraditional employment through local, state and regional partnerships, Hard Hatted Women pursues our mission to create economic equity and independence.
Resources
Center for Women Policy Studies- to shape public policy to improve women's lives
Policy Initiatives and Updates
Information about the Paycheck Fairness Act and related initiatives (July 2010):
The President's Statement on the Paycheck Fairness Act
Locations of Forums on Workplace Flexibility
The Work-Flex Event Starter Kit
U.S. Representatives Call for Gender Equity in Federal Contracts- September 2009, Legal Momentum- The Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund
Federal Policies Adopted More Than Thirty Years Ago Have Failed to Reduce Significantly Women’s Exclusion From the Construction Trades- August 2009, Timothy Casey, Legal Momentum- The Women's Legal Defense and Education Fund
Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay] Act: Obama Signs his First Bill- January 2009, Rachel Weiner, The Huffington Post (Video).