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Nontraditional careers are those in which women make up less than 25 percent of the workforce. The pay, benefits and job satisfaction can be much higher than in traditional female occupations. These sixteen DVSs, produced by Jocelyn Riley, are available from the HER OWN WORDS® catalog, PO BOX 5264, Madison, WI 53705-0264; phone 608-271-7083; fax 608-271-0209; email: jocelynriley@herownwords.com. "Powerful videos on women in nontraditional careers" (Tradeswomen Tools for Change).
For more information on the DVDs below, go to:
www.NontraditionalCareers.com
Women in Nontraditional Careers: An Introduction
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #23003; ISBN #978-1-60118-000-1. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #23002; ISBN #1-877933-69-4. Highlights forty-six women from a wide variety of backgrounds, including welders, firefighters, construction workers, machinists, a helicopter pilot, a dump-truck driver, police officers, dentists, athletic coaches, a service mechanic, a mason, and a mold-making apprentice.
Shifting Gears: Changing Careers
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #32003; ISBN #978-1-60118-001-8. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #32002; ISBN #1-877933-49-X Nineteen women who have changed from more traditional jobs (food-service, clerical, nursing assistant, childcare) to careers that are not traditional for women (welder, machinist, engineer, electrician).
Math at Work: Women in Nontraditional Careers
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #25003; ISBN #978-1-60118-003-2. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #25002; ISBN #1-877933-85-6. Thirteen women ranging from a helicopter pilot, an architect, a police officer, and a firefighter, to machinists and welders, highlight how they use mathematics on the job. "Superior" --School Library Journal. "Recommended" --School to Work News.
Women in Agriculture
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #41003; ISBN #978-1-60118-088-9. Resource guide 114 pages; $45.00; order #41002; ISBN #1-60118-089-6. Work experiences of nineteen women, including dairy farmers, vegetable, fruit, and flower growers and sellers, a cheesemaker and a cheese seller, a honey producer, women who raise sheep, chickens, turkeys, and fish, and an agricultural broadcaster/journalist. They work in a variety of settings and present a diversity of views on agricultural life, from production to wholesale to retail.
Women in the Automotive Industry
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #33003; ISBN #978-1-60118-005-6. Resource guide 114 pages; $45.00; order #33002; ISBN #1-877933-76-7. Nine women who work in a wide variety of occupations within the automotive industry (used-car sales manager, automotive-technology instructor, leasing manager, auto-repair shop owner/operator, automotive-tool distributor, and several automotive technicians). "Don't let anyone tell you you can't do this," says one.
Women in Building Construction
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #12003; ISBN #978-1-60118-006-3. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #12002; ISBN #1-877933-28-7. Work experiences of nine women who work in building construction, including carpentry, architecture, sheetmetal, painting, lighting design, plumbing, electrical, and heat and frost insulation. "The average woman would amaze herself," asserts a carpenter. "We can do it!" adds an architect.
Women in Dentistry
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #18003; ISBN #978-60118-007-0. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #18002; ISBN #1-877933-63-5. Four dentists in a variety of specialties. "I couldn't be happier now!" says one of them.
Women in Electronics
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #36003; ISBN #978-1-60118-008-7. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #36002; ISBN #1-877933-41-4. Nine women in electronics discuss their careers, including electrical engineers, electronics technicians, and an author of technical books on electronics.
Women in Engineering
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #27003; ISBN #978-1-60118-009-4. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #27002; ISBN #1-877933-93-7. Thirteen engineers whose work includes rollercoasters, wastewater-treatment plants, commercial packaged baked goods manufacturing, human resources, power utilities, telecommunications, tractors, and streambed improvement. "Invaluable for math, science, and career curriculums; an excellent purchase" --School Library Journal. "An interesting and useful reflection of women's issues and the workplace environment" --InfoTech.
Women Entrepreneurs
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order # 35003. ISBN #978-1-60118-010-0. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #35002. ISBN#1-877933-73-2. Twenty-four entrepreneurs, including a newspaper publisher, an audiologist, an architect and architectural historian, a restaurant owner, a painter, a quilter, a dry-cleaner, a wholesale florist, owner of a bicycle courier business, and the owner of a highway construction company.
Women in Firefighting
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #20003; ISBN #978-1-60118-011-7. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #20002; ISBN #1-877933-72-4. Six firefighters, including paramedics, a lieutenant, and a fire chief. "I was twenty-five years old when I realized, hey, I can do this!" says one firefighter. "Sometimes I wish I would have started this earlier, but I didn't know anybody like me growing up. Everybody I knew had proper jobs for women at the time." "Highly recommended--a valuable source of real-world career information" --School to Work News.
Women in Highway Construction
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #29003; ISBN #978-1-60118-012-4. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #29002; ISBN #1-877933-97-X. Twenty-one highway-construction workers including pavement marker, civil engineer, concrete finisher, inspector, carpenter, electrician, operating engineer, laborer, materials tester, and owner of a highway construction company. "This is a fine orientation" --Today's Librarian.
Women in Machining
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #22003; ISBN #978-1-60118-013-1. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #22002; ISBN #1-877933-78-3. Seven machinists who work in a variety of jobs. One points out that she does less heavy lifting as a machinist than she did as a waitress. "Recommended" --Learning Resource Materials Update.
Women in Policing
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #17003; ISBN #978-1-60118-014-8. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #17002; ISBN #1-877933-53-8. Six police officers with different specialties. "This is the type of job that has a future," says one. "One of the few up-to-date resources available encouraging young people to choose a law enforcement career" --Wisconsin Police Journal.
Women in Welding
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #21003; ISBN #978-1-60118-015-5. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #21002; ISBN #1-877933-75-9. "I enjoy working with my hands," says one welder. "There are very few things as satisfying in life as having a job that pays you well that you like," adds another.
Work Talk: Women in Nontraditional Careers in Their Own Words
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #28003; ISBN #978-1-60118-002-5. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #28002; ISBN #1-877933-95-3. Fast-paced; highlights dozens of diverse women in a wide variety of careers. What makes a job gratifying and challenging varies from person to person, but it's important to find the right career for you. A great discussion-starter.
Writing at Work: Women in Nontraditional Careers in Their Own Words
DVD (cc) 15 minutes; $95.00; order #30003; ISBN #978-1-60118-004-9. Resource guide 114 pages, $45.00; order #30002; ISBN #1-877933-17-1. Nineteen women show how they use writing on the job. "You have to be able to present well, you have to be able to write well, or you're just someone sitting in the corner at a computer desk," says an engineer. "The ability to communicate with people is absolutely the most critical part of the job," adds a police detective.
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