Women and Job Opportunity

Women continue to hold jobs with lower salaries and fewer benefits. They face barriers to employment in job sectors from which they have long been excluded. Job training programs for both adults and students too often reinforce these trends, failing to provide women and girls with competitive skills and a path into non-traditional, well-compensated jobs.

Programs:

Pipeline Program: Gender Equity in Career and Technical Education

Legal Momentum works with career and technical education high schools in New York City to improve recruitment and retention of girls, enhance girls’ participation in training for highly paid jobs in the construction trades, and increase compliance with laws ensuring educational equity and opportunity.

Workforce Development: Gender Equity in Job Training

Legal Momentum works to ensure that workforce development programs provide skills training for women across the spectrum of job sectors without reinforcing occupational segregation that has tracked women into lower paying jobs.