EWIT in the Media

“Remarkable things can be achieved one small step at a time, you just need to have the courage to take that first step.”

– Hacia atherton

Women’s Agenda

Hacia featured in Women’s Agenda

Across Australia’s workforce, few sectors stand out as starkly as the skilled trades when it comes to gender disparity. Despite trade industries like manufacturing, construction, and mining being some of the nation’s major employers, female representation in these fields remains alarmingly low.

Middy’s

Hacia was featured in Middy’s

In Australia, the trade industry is a male-dominated field, with women making up only 3% of the trade workforce. However, there has been a push to empower women to enter the trades and for companies to hire more women.

Inside Construction

EWIT featured in Inside Construction

Construction firm Kapitol Group has partnered with Empowered Women In Trades (EWIT), a non-for-profit organisation empowering women with the knowledge and skills to join the Australian construction industry.

MIGAS

EWIT was featured in MIGAS

MIGAS Apprentices & Trainees has launched an exciting new podcast series, WITS About Us, aimed at inspiring and empowering women in the trades industry.

AMPC

EWIT featured in AMPC

AMPC recently won an NSW Department of Education grant to encourage women in trade roles. The application outlined the development of a program that encourages women to trade roles in the red meat processing industry in rural NSW.

RMIT

Hacia was featured in RMIT

Hacia Atherton, CPA, is on a mission to empower women in trades and see more women in the workforce with meaningful economic opportunities and skills.

Steel Blue

Hacia was featured in Steel Blue

While training in 2017 to represent Australia in dressage at the World Equestrian Games, Hacia Atherton was thrown from her horse. The 600 kg animal fell on top of her, crushing her pelvis, fracturing her hips and severely damaging the nerves in her right leg.

Maxme

Hacia was featured in Maxme

We’re big believers in the power of human skills. But don’t just take our word for it – the evidence for excellence powered by human (‘soft’) skills is everywhere! In this engaging, ever-enlightening series, we speak with industry leaders, innovators and game-changers to learn a little about their personal career journeys, and how human-led strategies, philosophies and cultures are proving a force for good in their working worlds.

Women Love Tech

Hacia featured in Women Love Tech

The workforce is constantly evolving, and the idea of gender roles in certain industries is being challenged. However, the skilled trades industry still remains a largely male-dominated field.

The Project Interview

CEO Hacia Atherton shares her journey into founding Empowered Women in Trades.

From big dreams of Olympic Show-jumper to learning to walk again, Hacia has courageously pushed through challenge after challenge. Now she has turned her motivation to getting more women into trades.

Watch here.

ABC Gippsland

Hacia was featured in ABC Gippsland

Listen to Hacia’s interview on ABC Gippsland commenting on the Andrews government announcement regarding the gender quotas for Victorian construction sites.

Watch here.

Star Mail

Hacia was featured in Star Mail

A free women in trade tools skill day is coming to the Yarra Ranges to help boost women’s confidence in stepping outside their comfort zone to try a typically male dominated industry.

Watch here.

Herald Sun

Hacia was featured in Channel 7

Read Hacia’s Opinion piece published in the Herald Sun about the importance of increasing female representation in skilled trades.

Studio 10

Hacia was featured in Studio 10

A free women in trade tools skill day is coming to the Yarra Ranges to help boost women’s confidence in stepping outside their comfort zone to try a typically male dominated industry.

Watch here

Business NAB AU

Hacia was featured in NAB AU

A free women in trade tools skill day is coming to the Yarra Ranges to help boost women’s confidence in stepping outside their comfort zone to try a typically male dominated industry.

Daily Mail UK

Hacia was featured in Daily Mail UK

Tradie who was paralysed at 29 after being CRUSHED by a horse reveals how she learned to walk again despite being told she never would – and totally changed her career path.

Star Mail

Hacia was featured in Star Mail

Two week course empowered women to step into trades. The Empowered Women in Trades two week course saw 11 women step outside their comfort zone to learn four different trades as well as confidence in themselves.

Sydney Morning Herald

Hacia was featured in Sydney Morning Herald

Just 3% of tradies are women. Hacia is doing something about it. Hacia Atherton is no stranger to trade sites. Growing up in a family that has five generations of plumbers…

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EWIT in the Media

“Remarkable things can be achieved one small step at a time, you just need to have the courage to take that first step.”

– Hacia atherton

Women’s Agenda

Middy’s

Inside Construction

MIGAS

AMPC

RMIT

Steel Blue

Maxme

Women Love Tech

The Project Interview

ABC Gippsland

Star Mail

Herald Sun

Studio 10

Business NAB AU

Daily Mail UK

Star Mail

Sydney Morning Herald

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