For information on resources, including best and promising practices for compliance, enforcement, retention, oversight, training, and supportive services, please visit TWTF member Policy Group on Tradeswomen Issues Resource page.
For organizations and online contact information for women trying to get in the trade, please visit the online TWTF resource page.
For data on the status of women by state including poverty, wages, work, education & training and more, please visit the Institute for Women's Policy Research Status of Women in the States project.
For a more complete history of the tradeswomen movement and women in blue-collar industries, please visit the Tradeswomen Archives project.
For information regarding your legal rights, please contact the Legal Counseling Hotline at Equal Right Advocates. For workplace rights information visit A Better Balance.
For technical assistance resources for industry partners, including registered apprenticeship programs, employers, workforce agencies, pre-apprenticeship training programs and government on equity in the skilled trades, please visit the newly launched National Center for Women's Equity in Apprenticeship and Employment.
Additional Resource Links (provided by Western Resources Center for Women in Apprenticeship):
- Know Your Rights Resources - How the Law Defines Discrimination, Harrassment and Retaliation
- Know Your Rights - Examples of Unlawful Discrimination or Harrassment Commonly Faced by Women in Accessing and Working in the Trades
- Know Your Rights - Action Steps for Addressing Discrimination
- Know Your Rights - FACT Sheet - Overview of Federal Anti-Discrimination Laws
- Know Your Rights - FACT Sheet - State and Local Laws Prohibiting Employment Discrimination
- Know Your Rights - FACT Sheet - Executive Order 11246
- Know Your Rights - FACT Sheet - Title IX of the 1972 Education Amendments
- Know Your Rights - FACT Sheet - The VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Know Your Rights - FACT Sheet - The National Apprenticeshship Act of 1937
- Know Your Rights - FACT Sheet - The National Labor Relations Act
- CHART - Federal Anti-Discrimination Laws
- CHART - State Anti-Discrimination Laws
- CHART - Sample of Local Anti-Discrimination Laws