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The Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future offered free computer training to 300 women and a few men in the Dallas, Texas area. This training provided valuable new skills to improve the participants' career opportunities. The Women's Museum utilized its 20-station computer lab to help the program participants better prepare for the 21st Century workforce through targeted information technology (IT) training. The Women's Bureau provided funds to underwrite this demonstration training program as part of it's technology initiative.

In September, Women's Bureau Director Shinae Chun addressed many of the graduates of the computer skills classes at the Women's Museum in a special graduation event. "These women had their lives changed by becoming computer literate," said Director Chun. The Women's Bureau will continue to support this important program in the coming year due to its extraordinary results. Testimonials from the program participants include:

• Using the computer knowledge she learned at the Museum, Denise Johnson Stovall was able to write an article that was published in the New York Magazine.
  
  
• Jackie Mullendor was promoted from a part-time to a full-time position with Southwest Airlines as a result of the computer training she received.
  
  
• Gertrude Steward has become an Executive Administrator as a result of the skills she obtained from the computer training.

This is just one of many technology projects sponsored by the Women's Bureau.

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U.S. Department of Labor
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Telephone 1-800-827-5335 or (202) 693-6710
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