Idea 448 of 500. Cluster 23: The women who are not working
Girls' coding and engineering clubs in the districts, since the boys already have them
The mechanism, from the book
The single largest unused asset in the country is sitting at home, and the reasons are practical, not attitude.
Every idea in cluster 23 uses this mechanism.
A first step
Request a classroom on a Saturday from the principal of one district school, and ask a local engineer, a programmer or a university student home for the holidays to lead a first session. Send a note to the parents of girls in the upper classes offering it at a small monthly fee. The proof is a full first session and parents who pay for the next month.
- Who pays first
- Parents of girls in the upper classes who want their daughters ready for engineering and computing courses, paying a small monthly fee.
- What leaves today
- Women are 65% of the university intake but 32% of the workforce; technical skills learned early lead to the jobs that keep them working.
The idea and the mechanism are from the book. The first step was written for this site as a suggestion; if you know a better one, say so.
The test
Does it keep value that now leaves the island, or build the proof that lets somebody else do so?
The only test any idea on this site has to pass. The four rules that go with it are here.
In the book
- Ch. OneThe Letter That Says Yes and Means No
32% of adult women in work, against 70% of men
More from cluster 23
- 436Childcare co-operatives run by mothers for mothers, licensed and inspected, in every town
- 437After-school clubs at the schools, paid by the parents, run by teachers who want the income
- 438Women-only transport services for the night shifts and the early trains
- 439Home-based work platforms that pay properly: sewing, bookkeeping, transcription, design
- 440Shared workspaces for women with childcare attached, in Colombo and the district towns
- 441Women's craft co-operatives with a single brand and a single buyer abroad
Idea 448 of the 500 in the appendix of Why Not Sri Lanka? Every one can be started by one person, one family or one small firm.