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Media Release 3 August 2022   The CEO and Chair of Tradeswomen Australia Group (TWAG) joined industry calls for a greater focus on gender equity in Australia’s trade sector in [...]

Tradeswomen Australia have reported success in the early stages of establishing industry connections and support for women to enter the trades in Tasmania through the program ‘Remade for Trades’ and the Workplace Diversity Project

With women's participation in trades at just 2%, it is vital that organisations increase the number of women working in trades roles to increase innovation, diversity of ideas and bottom-line performance. Employers often ask Tradeswomen Australia how they can get more women through the doors of their organisation, and we think it starts with the job advertisement itself.

Media Release 27 May 2022 Janet Cribbes, CEO, Tradeswomen Australia said more than 160 workplaces in Victoria’s Automotive Industry, representing 3000 employees, are well advanced in an industry-first program designed [...]

Media Release 18/5/2022 The Tradeswomen Australia Workplace Diversity Project, successfully launched at Kangan Institute Docklands in 2021 by Ms Bronwyn Halfpenny MP, Parliamentary Secretary for Workplace Safety, was an important [...]

Throughout the Workplace Diversity Project and all its elements, we aim to equip the leaders we work alongside with the skills and knowledge to be diversity and inclusion champions in [...]

A special program aimed breaking down the barriers that limit women’s participation as apprentices/trainees in the non-traditional trades was launched on Monday by the Tasmanian Minister for Women, the Hon. [...]

Media Release - 11 April, 2022 A special program aimed breaking down the barriers that limit women’s participation as apprentices/trainees in the non-traditional trades will be launched this morning by [...]

Gretchen Gagel interviews Jane Sydenham-Clarke From the start of her career as a nurse to moving into government health promotion and beyond to the C-suite, Jane has worked to improve [...]

Women’s representation has remained less than 2% for twenty five years in core trades. Tradeswomen Australia said the growing voices of women around Australia is providing a focus for all [...]