Gender Bias Still Exists, Students Need Support for Career Success

WTS International, the association for the advancement of women in the transportation industry, is on a mission to educate college students about the benefits of joining the professional association now. The campaign was created with a dual purpose: to generate awareness about the plethora of viable career opportunities available in the transportation industry, and to support the nation’s current and future infrastructure, which is relying on associations like WTS for workforce development. According to an article in Popular Science magazine, then further discussed in The New York Times “...Science faculty see female students as less competent than their male counterparts, and it could cost them jobs, a fair salary, and mentoring opportunities.”

The results are given in the Popular Science article, and with this type of bias still penetrating college campuses, the need to help young women start a career out of the gate with advantages like a mentor and professional network of contacts has never been more critical.

With its sights set on workforce development, WTS International, the association for the advancement of women in the transportation industry, is on a mission to educate college students about the benefits of joining the professional association now. The membership drive was created with a dual purpose: to generate awareness about the plethora of viable career opportunities available in the transportation industry, and to support the nation’s current and future infrastructure, which is relying on associations like WTS for workforce development...Whether this campaign brings in those who already have their sights set on transportation or those first discovering the potential in both the public and private sectors, helping to develop our future workforce via membership brings us closer to WTS’s mission,” Ferranto added.

For more information, visit http://www.WTSinternational.org or email membership(at)wtsinternational(dot)org.

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WTS International, headquartered in Washington, DC, is committed to Advancing Women in Transportation through expanding existing scholarship opportunities to women pursuing transportation related degrees, providing and promoting more educational opportunities and career development to attract, retain, and advance women in transportation, and initiating, sponsoring and publishing research related to advancing women in transportation. More information can be found at http://www.WTSinternational.org.

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