Construcciones Yamaro: Empowered Women in Trades gains momentum in 2025
Empowered Women in Trades is driving progress and expanding opportunities for tradeswomen across Australia in 2025.
By Melinda Davis, general manager at Empowered Women in Trades.
I’ve always liked the start of a new year; it is like having a blank canvas just waiting to be filled with colour, and 2025 is no different. As we head into 2025, the Empowered Women in Trades (EWIT) team is excited about all the opportunities to come as we continue to push towards our vision of 30 per cent of trade-based roles being filled by women by 2030.
Each year, the EWIT team has a word of the year – something that reminds us why we continue to be disruptors, why we are changemakers and who we do this for. Our word for 2025 is one we have used before but holds such power and meaning: impact.
The Cambridge Dictionary defines “impact” as “a powerful effect that something, especially something new, has on a situation or person”. Everything we do, every program and event we deliver or attend, must have impact; otherwise, why are we doing it at all?
What is your word for 2025?
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Let’s give you a sneak peek into the initiatives the EWIT team will be up to in 2025 to continue to disrupt, make change and have impact.
We will see an increase in our school-based programs via our Kicking Goals in Trades program, connecting more secondary school students to trades pathways and helping them explore career options in a psychologically safe and supported environment. Our programs showcase how important trades are to all other careers; they take a deeper look at the skills and attributes needed and support students to get on the tools and be as comfortable with a drill as they would be with a pen.
The Women in Trades networking events will be rolled out to New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland in 2025 to continue to build community, create connections and support tradeswomen in remaining in the industry and exploring career development opportunities. These events are delivered in collaboration with Carpentry Australia and Apprenticeship Support Australia.
Working with our industry partners, we will see our talent attraction programs delivered across Australia to provide women with opportunities to connect with jobs, experience different trades, and build confidence and knowledge. You cannot be what you cannot see, and our programs allow you to experience a day in the life as we explore career options.
Our cultural programs, including Empower Minds and Thrive workshops, will be delivered as we work to support people to be better for each other. The programs are designed to support mental health and wellbeing and to break systemic, deep-rooted cultural issues by introducing psychological safety, navigating unconscious bias, and working to build concepts to ensure all people can participate authentically at work and leave happy and healthy to do the things we love.
Our village will continue to grow as we partner with like-minded organisations, industry partners and education departments to disrupt stereotypes through our EWIT Alliance.
And the rest? You will have to wait. Make sure you like and follow our social media pages to get involved, and remember, we may not be able to change the world, but together we can be world-changing. Let’s do this, 2025.
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