Arclight
Women Who Weld® has launched a new program - Arclight - in which we showcase women who create, ideate, and collaborate across specializations and trades.
We publish long-form interviews showcasing women in the welding industry, including former Women Who Weld participants, as well as women across a range of industries who, like welders, are responsible for bringing together components that form the structures we occupy and the products or services we consume each day.
Women Who Weld’s interviews offer insight into male-dominated career paths and some of the women who occupy them. Each interview reflects the experience, understanding, and voice of both the interviewee and interviewer in that moment. We hope you enjoy the exchange, and through Arclight, learn of opportunities, processes, and techniques that are perhaps unknown outside of their respective specializations and trades - work that directly impacts the daily lives of so many people in so many places.
Women Who Weld’s long-form interviews are free to subscribers, so subscribe now!
training programs
According to the American Welding Society, there are expected to be over 400,000 job openings nationally in the welding industry by 2025 and, currently, women only constitute 5% of the workforce.
Women Who Weld is addressing the gender imbalance and urgent talent shortage in the welding and manufacturing industries through our intensive and introductory training programs.
We are developing economic opportunities for women and diversifying the workforce.
• INTENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAM •
The goal of Women Who Weld's intensive welding training program is for participants to develop an in-demand skill and receive intensive training and preparation for full-time job, apprenticeship, or continuing education opportunities in the welding industry.
Week-Long Intensive Welding Training Classes:
Women Who Weld’s Week-Long Intensive Welding Training Classes are a low-cost, subsidized intensive training option for participants who want to learn how to weld to pursue a full-time career in the welding industry or develop the skill for individual purposes, e.g. to start a small business, engage in personal metalworking, etc.
Cost to Participant: $800.00
Cost to Women Who Weld: $3,150.00 per Participant
All proceeds from our Week-Long Intensive Welding Training Classes go directly back into our subsidized welding training programs.
Women Who Weld can accommodate a fixed number of participants per class; classes are held throughout the year. You must be at least 18 years of age to participate; participants of any skill-level or location are welcome to learn how to weld. Women Who Weld may assist participants of its Week-Long Intensive Welding Training Classes with job placement, but it is ultimately the responsibility of the participant to apply, interview, and test into a job or apprenticeship in the welding industry.
Click here to view our current schedule or contact us to be notified of upcoming classes
• INTRODUCTORY TRAINING PROGRAM •
Single-Day Introductory Welding Workshops:
Women Who Weld’s Single-Day Introductory Welding Workshops are a low-cost, subsidized intensive training option for participants to gain basic training in gas metal arc welding and information about opportunities in the welding industry. For some participants, the Single-Day Introductory Welding Workshop can act as a feeder into a Week-Long Intensive Welding Training Class.
Cost to Participant: $125.00
Cost to Women Who Weld: $300.00 per Participant
All proceeds from our Single-Day Introductory Welding Workshops go directly back into our subsidized welding training programs.
Women Who Weld can accommodate a fixed number of participants per workshop; workshops are held throughout the year. You must be at least 18 years of age to participate; participants of any skill-level or location are welcome to learn how to weld for any purpose.
Click here to view our current schedule or contact us to be notified of upcoming workshops.
STATEMENT ON DIVERSITY & INCLUSION IN OUR TRAINING PROGRAMS
Women make up only 5% of the workforce in the welding industry. There are many historical, institutional, and yet contemporary barriers contributing to this gender imbalance. Accordingly, Women Who Weld focuses on training women to weld, and while our intensive and introductory training programs are open to individuals who identify as women and may prefer to receive instruction and training in a female-oriented environment, all are welcome to participate.
Women Who Weld recognizes and values each of our participants regardless of their gender identity, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, or ability.