Women in Renewables: Women in Solar Program

告诉我们关于太阳能计划的女性

太阳能计划中的妇女由Buon Energy Solutions（Buon）建立，支持劳工雇用公司Chandler Macleod的支持，直接解决了妇女在可再生能源项目建设方面的参与率非常低 - 估计大约左右两个百分点。

Beon已经看到办公环境中的女性员工大幅增加，在很大程度上受到可再生能源项目的增加而导致的，但建设方面也没有发生。

这些较低数量的原因包括悠久的女性历史，没有在建设中获得就业机会，缺乏妇女进入行业的途径，以及推进工作的妇女的有限机会导致保留低保留。

Beon认为鉴于可再生能源行业相对较新的位置，有一个很好的机会来纠正这种不平衡，所以在太阳能计划中建立了女性。

该方案旨在通过以下方式提高妇女参与大型太阳能农场的建设部件：

Recruitment– active promotion of job opportunities on our solar projects and the facilitation of pre-employment skills and training programs, such as health and safety, to get the women job ready for construction roles.

Retention– ongoing mentoring, support and training for female workers on our projects to assist them to advance and continue to work in the industry.

Why was it important to Beon Energy Solutions to introduce this? What were you hoping to achieve?

In keeping with Beon’s goal of, ‘making a positive contribution in the communities and regions where we work,’ employing more women on renewable energy projects was considered not only the right thing to do, but good for the regional communities where we work.

但它也被认为是有益的。增加妇女的参与扩大了可再生能源工作的人才库，从而提高了生产力。

Was it successful? What feedback did you receive from the women in the first intake?

It has been successful. On Beon’s first couple of large-scale solar farms, the participation rates of women in the construction side of the projects was less than 5%. The women in solar program saw the numbers increase to 11% during the construction of Spark Infrastucture’s Bomen solar farm. And last year at Genex’ Jemalong Solar Farm that Beon built, the numbers of women onsite increased to 22%.

Beon’s productivity has increased with each new solar farm and this can be partly attributed to the increase in the numbers of women working on these projects.

Beon’s experience to date, shows that women in the workplace bring new perspectives, different skill sets, improve collaboration and contribute to a positive workplace culture.

Importantly, the benefits for the women have been great too.

Among the participants are Tracey Trainor, 39, a mother who had minimal work history but was eager to get back into the workforce.

“It has been really hard to get much of an opportunity after being out of work for so long, so Women in Solar has been amazing for me,” Tracey said.

对于65岁的原住民女性Lynette Toomey，太阳能计划的女性让她有机会回到员工队并尝试新的东西。

“I’ve been unemployed for the last five months and I’m so thankful that someone has looked past my age and given me a go,” Lynette said.

Some women were single mothers with limited work experience and so found it very hard to find an employee who would give them an opportunity to prove themselves. Now they have. And as a result, their self esteem has been enhanced and this combined with the increased income they have earned has had a positive impact not only on them, but their families.

作为Buon在Solar Program的第一名女性中的参与者之一，Hayley Stear说。

“It’s had a big impact on a lot of people, like one of my mates, Chloe, she is only 17 and it has built her confidence up a lot and it has a big impact on us, it has given us all the courage to step out, because a lot of us have been unemployed and single parents and it got us out working and back into society.”

下一步来自这里？您是否会再次运行该程序进行不同的网站？

Beon继续在我们不同的太阳能项目中运行这个程序，一直希望建立并改进该计划。来自第一个计划的一些女性现在正在使用Buon的第三个太阳能电场。甚至如果他们地区的太阳能农场建造开始缓慢，他们现在也有一个经过验证的轨道记录，不仅可以在建筑工地上工作，而且工作良好，所以可以继续和工作其他建筑工地或其他工作。

What advice would you give to other businesses looking to increase female representation and participation in their workplace?

Give it a go. As mentioned previously, it’s the right thing to do, good for regional projects and good for business.

As documented in a recent study by the Australian Clean Energy Council, ‘Clean Energy at Work,’ in 2019 there were 25,000 people employed in renewable energy projects and this number could increase to as many as 44,000 by 2025 – the majority of which will be in regional areas.

因此，妇女参与可再生能源部门的参与将越来越重要，因为对优质工人的需求会有更大的需求。

This year’s IWD theme is ‘Choose to challenge’. How did this program challenge gender stereotypes in the workplace?

The gender stereotype that this program has challenged was the preconceived idea that women would not be able to handle the physical conditions and long work hours – 55 hours per week – required on a solar farm. These preconceived ideas were held not only by some men onsite, but the women themselves.

但是在这样做，女性被证明自己和他人，他们可以做到这项工作，并非比男人更好。

Obviously, there are some tasks that not all women are suited to, but that also applies to men, that is not all men are suited to all tasks either. As with everyone, the role of the supervisors and managers is to find those tasks that people are suited to. And the good thing about large scale solar farms, is that there are many different tasks.

作为我们的网站管理员之一，丹尼斯帕加人在第一个试点项目之后与太阳能计划的女性相关，“我的一些最好的工人在太阳能计划中出现了妇女......而且那就诚实。。。他们都证明自己是令人敬畏的工人，我很高兴他们来到下一个项目。

And finally, as Hayley Stear, one of the women who participated in the first program said in response to the question of what she would say to other women thinking of taking up a job on the construction side of renewable energy projects:

“搏一搏。这是物理工作，但它们使其变得简单，就像你挣扎，或者你不能做那个特定的工作，他们会帮助你找到你适合的工作。他们希望你工作，他们会帮助你找到你所在的地方，你的意思是，我会鼓励他们去。这很棒。“

Beon have produced a short video on the project.

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