Advocacy Initiatives
Resources for Working Women
Click here to visit Women Employed for information on:
Employment Rights under Federal Law
Facts About the Family and Medical Leave Act
Pregnancy Rights on the Job
Sexual Harassment and Your Rights on the Job
Filing an Employment Discrimination Charge with the EEOC
Best Practices in Responsible Development
While women account for 48% of the national labor force, 59% make less than $8 an hour, primarily because they occupy positions that are traditionally female, and wages are persistently low and frequently offer no benefits. This puts most female-headed households near or below the poverty level, thus putting themselves and their children at risk. Recently, Cleveland was once again named number one in poverty for a large U.S. city.
Hard Hatted Women understands the urgency to act.
By engaging community partners and civic leaders in our mission, we have the ability to impact the lives of a greater number of women. In promoting Responsible Development through the Partnership Model, Hard Hatted women can affect system change by advancing policies and practices in our region's construction industry which promote inclusion, diversity and equity.
HHW Announces Tradeswomen TOOLS: Training, Outreach, Opportunity, Leadership and Support.
With record-level amounts of public dollars about to be dispersed through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), it is more important than ever that dedicated attention and resources be given to ensuring that women have fair access to the jobs created by this public investment. HHW stands ready with customized solutions that are based on 30 years of experience and national best practice. Tradeswomen TOOLS is designed to link women to opportunities in high-wage, skilled careers. Tradeswomen TOOLS builds from the expertise and participation of women already working in nontraditional fields to advance diversity initiatives within the building trades, heavy highway, advanced manufacturing, energy/utility industries, emerging green industries and other high wage fields. The goal of the TOOLS program is simple: to help more women and their families escape the cycle of poverty, by assisting them to learn about, gain entry to and stay on the job in careers that pay a family-supporting wage, and offer crucial benefits such as health care and pension support that are critical to long-term economic security. Read More