Women and Work Sector Pathways Initiative

Joanne GarrisonProject Manager

13 January 2009

Women and Work Sector Pathways Initiative

The Women & Work: Sector Pathways Initiative was launched in England in the March 2006 Budget Statement as part of the Government’s response to the Women and Work Commission’s report Shaping a Fairer Future.

Pilot Project 2006 – March 2008 Phase 1 of the initiative aimed to test new

recruitment and career pathways for women.

Phase 1

9 SSCs were involved in Phase 1 of the project. Asset Skills, IMI Automotive Skills, Construction Skills, E U Skills, Improve, Lantra, Semta, Skills for Logistics, Skillfast UK

Project Criteria – comprehensive; highlights Commenced with a target of 7000 participants Success led to 7568 women completing an

individual training plan

Phase 1 – SSC Individual Achievement

Asset Skills 1638 outputs IMI Automotive Skills 1114 outputs Construction Skills 2291 outputs E U Skills 141 outputs Improve 229 outputs Lantra 995 outputs SEMTA 188 outputs Skillfast 871 outputs Skills for Logistics 101 outputs

Evaluation of Phase 1

Over 80% success rate for Phase 1 of the project

42% of participants through the project gained more responsibility at work, 36% obtained a salary increase, 28% secured a promotion

62% of women involved agreed it was harder for women than men to progress to senior roles in industry

Phase 2

Additional Government funding for 3 years 2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2010/2011

£5M per year will be funded through DIUS Expectation that 5,000 women per year

will complete and individual training plan Impact of current climate – 2 of the 10

projects have been affected by the current climate

Case Studies

External Stakeholders

DIUS

TUC

Government Equalities Office

Equality Human Rights Office