7 Ways Women in Construction Can 'Pave the Way' in Their Male-Dominated Field
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February 24, 2020
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By Marilyn Grabowski, Entrepreneur
Good building isn’t done with a hammer and saw; it’s done with the head,” DeRosa proclaimed. “There should be more women builders.”
Forty-five years later, having built my own successful construction business, Atlantic Infra, I’m making that same argument. According to the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC), women today make up only 9.1 percent of the construction industry, and while I’d like to say it's far more welcoming of women business leaders than in my grandmother’s day, the reality is that we face many of the same obstacles she and her peers did.