Reasons for Women

Top 10 Reasons for Women
to Consider Nontraditional Careers

10.
  Your job choice should be based on abilities and interests not gender stereotypes.
 
9.
Eighty percent of all female workers do not need to stay limited by working in only 5 percent of all jobs.
 
8.
You can earn up to 30% more working in nontraditional jobs.
 
7.
You want to enter the workforce quickly with one or two years of skilled training.
 
6.
Your education lays a solid foundation for your future.
 
5.
You can earn enough to get what you want from life.
 
4.
You can use your knowledge in high skill, high tech jobs.
 
3.
You’ll increase your options in the technology driven workplace in the 21st Century.
 
2.
You DO have a choice!
 
1.
You want to succeed!
 

Source: Ridgewater College: Wilmar & Hutchinson (2003) website