Nontraditional Employment for Women (NEW) is an organization that prepares, trains and places women in careers in the skilled construction industry. This includes utility and maintenance trades. The goal of the organization is to help women achieve economic independence.
Dan Zwirn and Monica Keany have made NEW one of the organizations that they have supported over the past couple of years. This is not the only women’s organization they have supported as Dan Zwirn is a contributor and member of the Board of Trustees for Barnard College, a women’s College providing a liberal arts education in New York City.
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| Dan Zwirn supports NEW. |
NEW develops women for careers within skilled and unionized jobs that are manual labor. Serving low-income women in New York City, it aims to provide these women with the skills to begin a career. NEW works with labor unions, contractors and government to place women in 10% of all new apprenticeship spots. Since 2005, over 600 women from the NEW program have found work in positions as carpenters, plumbers, electricians and many others. On top of that, 255 more women have found careers in energy transportation and facilities management industries.
NEW’s website notes that in 1978, under 2% of all construction workers were women. By 2005, that number had risen to 3% and will continue to climb as NEW increases the influence on both women and the workforce in the New York City area.
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