Authorities of the Dock Sud Port Management Consortium (Cgpds) and the Santiago River Shipyard (ARS) delivered diplomas this Wednesday to women who participated in the program “Train to Work”which aims to expand job opportunities for women and members of the LGBTIQ+ community in traditionally masculinized trades.
The president of the Cgpds, Carla Monrabalexplained that the initiative “arose as a need to work day by day on equity that does not develop alone, but as a team between the Port and the Shipyard, articulating, signing agreements, where each one does their best, and in which We have workers who dared to break the paradigms“.
for his part Peter Wasiejkohead of the ARS highlighted that this training task “is transcendental and reality has shown that it is possible, that is why it is an open road andhe Río Santiago Shipyard will continue to promote these initiatives“, adding that” this is building equality.
Last July, the Minister of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of the province of Buenos Aires, Estela Diazsigned together with Monrabal and Wasiejko the agreement that launched the “Train to Work” program in the Port, which seeks to multiply job opportunities for women and LGBTI+ people in the port community in traditionally masculinized trades.
The initiative works around four axes: promoting joint work between the State, companies, the Cgpds, the Río Santiago Shipyard and the community; reduce inequality in the world of work due to gender issues; promote skilled labor in the city of Avellaneda and the port area; and foster spaces to create more jobs in the Port industries.
Camila Ledesmaone of the women who took part in this pilot test, assured that the course “exceeded my expectations since I learned a trade” and pointed out that “it was quite easy for the women since they always treated us well and I am very grateful for everything what we learned.”
Another of the workers Sabrina Larceindicated that he never imagined that he would be trained “in welding since he did not even know what an electrode was.”
Along these lines, he indicated that “the Shipyard was a new world that trained me in a very masculinized trade. The practices seemed fundamental to me.”
