Allow about 15 minutes for this activity

For this activity, we have created six learner profiles based on women in marginalised communities as a starting point for you to consider the characteristics of women in the communities that you have been or will be working in. In creating the profiles, we considered important factors for course design as follows:

• Differences in country and community cultures: e.g.  two profiles from each of Australia, Chile, Cameroon, Jordan, India and Mexico.
• Demographic profile: e.g. young and older women, formal education and informal learning, marital status
• Work experience and aspirations: employees, entrepreneur (owner of small business), managers
• Learning styles/behaviour: e.g. quick and slow learner, experience of online learning
• Course topics - life and career planning, financial planning and entrepreneurship, and digital literacy.

Now complete the following tasks:

a.     Review the six profiles of women and identify one similarity and one difference that is evident across the profiles.

b.     Select a woman in the community you live or work in. This can be an employee, entrepreneur or unemployed. It can be a local role model, a relative, friend, or anyone you would like to study. Just make sure there is enough information available, based on the factors you have reviewed.

c.      Create a short PowerPoint slide describing the profile of the women as a learner. If you are unable to create a PowerPoint slide, do not worry. You can write down the profile of your selected learner in your notebook.

Now save your PowerPoint slide or notes and be prepared to share it with the facilitator and other course participants during the Live Event.