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Equitable Job Information in Wisconsin Job Centers (Nontraditional Occupations)

The purpose of this site is to give Job Center and partner staff tools and resources to help provide equitable, unrestricted, and nontraditional job information. Following are highlights of the site.

NTO Resource Guide (focus on women)
The focus is on "hands on" tools for staff to use in exposing women to NTO including a nontraditional IQ quiz, NTO career ladders, information on NTO for W-2 customers.

NTO Tool Kit (focus on women)
The focus is on tools for integrating NTO activities in Job Centers including graphics of women in nontraditional jobs.

Nontraditional Jobs in Wisconsin (women and men)
The focus is on Wisconsin NTO jobs for women and men by county and state from the 2000 Census. Excel file with built-in filtering capabilities. Fields are county, SOC code, occupation title, female numbers, male numbers, percent female and percent male.
Note: The linked document takes about 2 minutes to open on a 56K dial-up connection. If Excel is on the machine you are using, you can right mouse click on the link and select "Save target as" and save the file locally. You can then view the information without tying up your internet connection. The file will take about a minute to save locally.

Links (women and men) to other NTO web sites - State and National
The focus is on web sites in Wisconsin and the nation that provide NTO resources including videos, graphics, strategies.

Wisconsin Job Centers are responsible for providing equitable and unrestricted job information to all customers. This means job information and referral activities are not based on stereotypes of what is considered traditional women's and men’s work.

They should also include occupations that are considered nontraditional for women and men. The US Department of Labor defines nontraditional occupations in which 25% or less of the workers are either women or men.

Examples of jobs that are nontraditional

For women			For men
Carpenter	Electrician	Mechanic	Beautician	Childcare worker	Nurse

If you wish to make comments about this web site or if you have questions, contact Sandi Fike at Sandi@dwd.state.wi.us.

Please Note: The NTO Tool Kit and Resource Guide are targeted to women. They were produced through a U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Women’s Bureau Grant and a Job Center Grant

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