Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) Australia has become a founding member of the Empowered Women in Trades (EWIT) Alliance.
EWIT is a not-for-profit organisation empowering women with the knowledge and skills to join the Australian manufacturing, construction and renewable energy industries. It aims to increase women’s participation in skilled trades from 3% to 30% by 2030.
The EWIT Alliance has been established to provide organisations, small and large, with the opportunity to support EWIT’s targets. Alliance members will contribute to important EWIT initiatives to promote the benefits of a skilled trade to women and girls. These include tool skills days, talent attraction programs, school programs, involvement at expos and conferences, and advocacy activities.
CCEP Australia Vice President Customer Service and Supply Chain Linda Leo says CCEP has a focus on continuing to improve its overall gender composition and supporting improved gender composition across the manufacturing sector more broadly.
“Becoming a founding member of the EWIT Alliance builds on our existing relationship with EWIT, whose targets closely align with our own goals, and we look forward to partnering together to champion diversity initiatives that contribute to the advancement of women in skilled trades,” she says.
EWIT founder and CEO Hacia Atherton says her organisation is delighted that CCEP has joined the EWIT Alliance as a founding member.
“CCEP join a select group of organisations demonstrating their support of a more diverse and inclusive skilled trade workplace, while helping to address the skills shortages that have plagued the manufacturing, construction and renewable energy industries,” she says.
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