JIVE PROJECT Gill Rooker Gender Equality Coordinator

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JIVE PROJECTGill RookerGender Equality
Co-ordinator
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JIVE PROJECT

• Major national project - 9,211,000, 50 from ESF
• Major match funder DTI UK Resource Centre for
  Women in SET and Women Returner's budgets
• To enhance UKRC delivery and develop and innovate
  from first Jive Partnership
• To join up government funding, policies and
  practice
• To address vertical and horizontal occupational
  gender segregation

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UK Resource Centre for Women In SET

• Aim
• To improve the participation and position of
  women in SET employment, across academia,
  industry and public service in the UK
• Focus
• Working to address both sides of the problem
• demand from employers
• supply of women
• Technical and professional levels

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JIVE Partners

• Create culture and practice change within the
  engineering, construction and technology sectors.
• Enable girls and women to overcome the barriers
  preventing them entering, staying and succeeding.

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Gender Stereotyping and Occupational Segregation

• Although the Equal Pay Act has been in force
  since 1975, women are still earning 15 less than
  men. (Close the Pay Gap Campaign, 2005).
• Occupational segregation is one of the 3 main
  factors contributing to the gender pay gap
  alongside
• Caring responsibilities
• Availability for part-time employment

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Gender Pay Gap

• The vast majority of jobs in these sectors pay
  less than in the sectors where men predominate
• The highest earnings are achieved in
  male-dominated, graduate professions

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Three quarters of working-women are still found
in just 5 occupational groups
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Joint Responsibility for Cultural Change
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Project Aims and Targets

• Over 1,600 beneficiaries
• Learning Providers 500
• Careers and Connexions- 300
• Employers current
• ECITB testing ground
• Mentoring 700
• ICT MCSE and Teacher training - 80

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Regional and sector hubs to deliver objectives
ECITB
Yand H
Wales
S.E
Lon
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JIVE

• Our Partners
• UKRC
• Sheffield Hallam University
• Cardiff Women's Workshop
• Open University
• Oxford Women's Training Scheme
• Scottish Resource Centre
• North West Hub
• Additional national partners

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JIVE

• Holistic model of intervention for cultural
  change
• Change process with hard end of the industry
  vocational training providers careers
  professionals
• Interventions themselves as being
  appropriate/hitting the mark
• Gender Equality in HR using a range of tools,
  to support progress to awards ie the Culture
  Analysis Tool Survey
• Training materials-
• Mentoring training
• How to overcome stereotyping in careers
• ICT troubleshooting training pilot
• Bespoke training for learning providers and
  employers

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JIVE

• THANKS FOR YOUR TIME
• Contact g.rooker_at_bilk.ac.uk