Take action!
Now is the time for us to work together for girls and young women. Please support us.
Show your support. There are so many ways. Let the girls and young women who are struggling to pay their way know you care!
Test how much you know in one of our quizzes, We reckon you'll be surprised how much you DON'T know!
Be aware of how you react to young women in the workplace.
If you have a daughter, niece, cousin, sister, wife, neighbour or friend who is a young woman needs encouragement and help to get on in her working life, support her to get the training she needs. Encourage her to apply for better paid jobs. Could you take her to your workplace so she can find out what it's really like? Help her look beyond her immediate 'comfort zone' and ask questions.
"There's no jobs round here, nothing, anywhere, nothing at all. If I stay round here, I'll have to get a factory job and stay there for the rest of my life cos its the only good pay around here: £200 a week!
I'm joining the army. Its a better place to be - you learn new skills every day." Sarah, 17
Check if your MP signed our early day motion (EDM 1683) in Parliament which we tabled in June 2007. The EDM says:
"That this House congratulates the YWCA on its More Than One Rung initiative to help young women into work and lift them out of poverty; notes that more than a quarter of a million young women work in elementary jobs, 10 per cent. have no qualifications and one million live in poverty; and calls on the Government to develop training programmes that address the needs of disadvantaged young women."