I have a report here that we just published of stories of a number of women in our program. Many of them will say they weren't encouraged at a young age to consider the careers, the trades, or technologies. We don't work specifically within the school system, but the women we work with do. The greatest way to encourage young women to participate in the trades or technologies is when their mothers, their sisters, or their aunts are in these fields.
So many women who are unemployed and underemployed are able to be retrained to work in these fields that we have to do both: work within the school system as well as encourage and support programs that offer opportunities to support women to move into these fields.
We need role models.