Pipeline Program: Reports and Resources

Legal Momentum's Pipeline Program works to increase girls’ enrollment in high schools that prepare them for the skilled trades with the goal of overcoming the intense sex segregation that has long been the norm in these schools. These high schools lead to occupations with higher wages, better benefits, and greater opportunities for professional growth.

Pipeline Program Newsletter

Legal Momentum's Pipeline Program started publishing a monthly Newsletter in November 2010. The Newsletter shares strategies to encourage and increase girls' participation in career and technical education, offers guidelines for implementing strategies and conducting gender equity events, and highlights upcoming activities for all involved with career and technical education.

General Resources

  • Testimony to the New York City Council on Gender Equity in CTE Schools - Testimony to the New York City Council Education Committee to support gender equity in CTE Schools. September 2008

  • Can a Girl Be a Carpenter? - The Pipeline Program seeks to maximize girls’ recruitment to career and technical education schools by educating parents and guidance counselors about the economic opportunities offered by the construction trades. This flyer details facts about economic opportunity in constructions trades for women and girls. September 2008

  • Mayoral Task Force on Career and Technical Education Innovation’s Preliminary Recommendations - Equality Works Project Manager Francoise Jacobsohn testified at a 2008 public hearing of the Mayoral Task Force on Career and Technical Education Innovation in New York City. Francoise offered Legal Momentum’s initial comments on the Task Force’s recommendations to overhaul the city’s career and technical, or vocational, education system. Francoise’s testimony focused on the necessity for the Task Force to end "gender tracking as it seeks to transform career and technical education." June 2008

  • From the Ground Up: Building Opportunities for Women in Construction - This report stemmed from Legal Momentum's ground-breaking conference, Women re:BUILD NY, which brought leaders from all segments of the construction industry together with tradeswomen to focus on making equal opportunity a reality for women in the construction trades. January 2008