Tradeswomen Australia Group is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to gender equality and empowerment for all girls and women to access, participate and succeed in trades. Since founding Tradeswomen Australia Group in 2013, we’ve been working hard to increase female representation to more than 2% of Australia’s trade industry workforce. And while the challenge is considerable with many barriers in place, we’re getting closer every day thanks to the help of our community partners and supporters. If we work together, we believe all women from all backgrounds will succeed in trades careers. We know that career exploration and decision making largely starts in the classroom, which is why we’re working so hard to make more students aware. After all, if you don’t know about trades careers, you’re not likely to choose one. To date, we’ve brought our school programming to over 1,000 students across Victoria to share the variety of roles available, the women who currently work in them, and where they can seek further information. But it doesn’t stop there! We’re also here to help women of all ages and backgrounds who are considering a trades pathway for the first time. Through our community programming, individual employment consulting, and our jobs board, we’re here to help all women secure employment or an apprenticeship at gender-safe, secure workplaces. For tradeswomen looking to further grow their career through networking. mentoring, or even finding a new job – we’re here to help you too! The change we’re working towards isn’t possible without the support of employers in all industries to help break down barriers and increase representation. We work with employers to improve the mental wellbeing of employees and workplace culture through diversity and inclusion initiatives. We hope by educating workplace leaders to become diversity and inclusion champions in their workplaces, we can help reduce preventable mental injuries.