Lunch & Learn: Supporting Women in Skilled Trades through Allyship
The Women in Skilled Trades (WIST) Retention Program invites you to an interactive workshop designed to spark meaningful conversations and build practical skills around allyship in the skilled trades.
📍 Venue: CB312, Aldred Centre
📅 Date: November 24, 2025
⏰ Time: 11 am – 12 pm
👥 Audience: Apprentices, faculty, and all supporters in the skilled trades
🎤 Facilitator: Ben Hart, Instructor, School of Transportation
This engaging session will:
- Take stock of existing initiatives towards equity in the trades.
- Shine a light on gender-based inequities that continue to shape experiences in the trades.
- Clearly define allyship and its importance in creating equitable workplaces.
- Provide opportunities to apply allyship to real-life scenarios faced by women in skilled trades.
- Explore the role of bystander intervention in fostering safer and more supportive environments.
Through discussion, reflection, and scenario-based learning, participants will walk away with practical strategies to become stronger allies and champions of equity in their workplaces. Lunch will be provided.
✨ Join us in building a culture where everyone in the trades can thrive.
Coordinated by the Women in Skilled Trades (WIST) Retention Program.
The Women in Skilled Trades Retention Program is partially funded by the Government of Canada’s Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy.
