Women Tradies

Australia
 Current policies and procedures: The current policies and
procedures will impact the policy development. These policies and
procedures are rendered useless if employers neglect to adhere to
them or fail to effectively communicate them to employees. Utilizing
both policies and procedures during decision-making ensures that
employers are consistent in their decisions.

Internal Management direction: Unclear management direction will cause

employees unclear about the current policies and procedures.
factors
Culture: An organization’s culture is viewed as the foundation of its
internal environment. Organizational culture (or corporate culture)
significantly influences employee behavior.
 • (P)olitical: The extent to which a
government may influence the economy
and thereby impact organizations within a
certain industry. This includes
government policy, political stability, and
trade and tax policy.

External • (E)conomic: How economic conditions

shift supply and demand to directly affect

factors
a company. This includes economic
growth or decline, and changes in interest
and inflation rates.
• (S)ocial: Changes in the sociocultural
market environment that illustrate
customer needs and wants. This includes
emerging trends, population analytics,
and demographics
Current situation and
issues
• boosting the number of women in the manual trades requires
cultural shifts in society as much as within the industries
themselves
• manual trades are perceived to be masculine professions. This
means that girls generally don’t consider careers in these fields
• many of their parents actively discourage them from doing so.
They fear their daughters will be at risk in a male environment,
that there is too much heavy lifting and dirty work
 Recommendations

Policy Availability Issues Impact Rating

Gender Ensure that gender equality is considered in Gender Balance In all correspondence to Members regarding High
Balance the planning, running and discussions at each constituent body meetings, encourage
session of WTAS constituent bodies. Members to increase the representation of
women in delegations
Health and Ensure that safety processes is considered in Implementing health and safety in the Put measures in place to protect the people High
safety the planning, running and discussions at each workplace helps to assess potential risks and and environment in the organisation. These
session of WTAS constituent bodies. identify significant hazards.. vital steps are essential to reduce the costs
associated with safety failures
Age Ensure that age equality is considered in the  This type of discrimination may come in a Loss of experience and potential High
planning, running and discussions at each variety of forms, such as refusing to hire older  
session of WTAS constituent bodies. employees, firing older employees or treating Loss of workers
older employees differently than younger  
employees. Although not as common, age Damage to productivity
discrimination may occur against younger
employees.
Disability Unavailable The policy does not include disability for Affect the people who have disability High
reference