Breaking Out of the Pink-Collar Ghetto by Mastracci Sharon H.;

Author:Mastracci, Sharon H.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 4605323
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group

Nontraditional Employment for Women Demonstration Grants

Although information from each NEW-funded project informed this analysis, two cases are exemplary in their differing approaches, and provide interesting contrasts in effective project implementation: the state of Wisconsin’s NTO Tool Kit and the State of Texas’ Project TExAS.

State of Wisconsin: The NTO Tool Kit

The state of Wisconsin received its NEW grant in 1995. The Job Employment and Training Services Division within the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, Division of Workforce Excellence (DWE) rolled out a statewide implementation of a model nontraditional training program designed for Wisconsin job centers to use as the basis for statewide technical assistance and training strategies. This model was written by staff from the Nontraditional Employment Training Programs of the YWCA of Greater Milwaukee, based on Project NEW Start, which was tested in the Milwaukee service delivery area (SDA). The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee is a member of the Wisconsin Regional Training Partnership (WRTP), which is a consortium of over 100 employers and unions and was founded in 1992. The WRTP has been lauded as a fine example of a network to “provide collective solutions to problems that single firms cannot afford or are unable to devise on their own, with the price tag of solid wages, job security, and career ladders for workers.”17 The AFL-CIO Working for America Institute highlighted WRTP as an example of an effective partnership promoting high-road economic development strategies in their High Road Partnerships Report.18

The DWE subcontracted with the Milwaukee YWCA and the SDA to distribute the model statewide using the Nontraditional Tool Kit, which includes the NTO Resource Guide and the Mentor Handbook. As a result of the project, women in NTOs increased from 7 percent in 1994 before the project to 13.4 percent.19 Wisconsin’s NTO Tool Kit sought to provide exposure to nontraditional training and occupations to 100 percent of the women who use Job Center services; increase the placement of women into nontraditional jobs to 16 percent in the Milwaukee SDA; attain an average wage at placement for women entering NTOs of $8.25 per hour; ensure retention of at least 85 percent of women placed in nontraditional jobs through support activities; integrate nontraditional exposure, training, and preparation into each participant-related function of the Job Center; provide a specific focus on nontraditional elements in the inter-agency planning; create and disseminate a technical assistance tool kit that is designed to function as a guide to SDAs; and utilize the experiences in the Job Center program model development and implementation and the resources in the NTO Tool Kit to build the strategies that will systematize an effective statewide system of technical assistance and training.20

The NTO Tool Kit was written based on the experience of implementing the Milwaukee SDA 12 project. The state partnered with Ed Ventures Unlimited, Private Industry Councils, YWCAs, technical colleges, and community-based nonprofit organizations to test the model and implement it statewide. To assist statewide replication, a steering committee was created to oversee and direct NTO efforts. This committee, the Wisconsin Leadership

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