When Miriam Sowter felt her passion for her hospitality job fading away, she took on the advice of a friend and considered a job in trades.
"They were greater impacted compared to the other women we usually work with and we wanted tailored programs to help them out of these situations so they can gain access into something that's permanent, including things like annual leave and sick pay," she told SBS News. Additional support services, like childcare, translated material and transportation to and from the training sessions will be provided to participants to encourage women from multicultural communities to join. At the same time, monthly training sessions will be offered to provide a range of technical and educational knowledge to help women through the program and beyond.
I’m 62 nearly and don’t have the physical stamina for most of that. What are you doing for me?
My dad wrote to the Victorian apprenticeship board in the mid 60s to ask if he could take on females as motor mechanic apprentices as he found males were unreliable. They replied ridiculing his idea. He never forgot their backward thinking. Times have thankfully changed.