efforts to prepare women for construction jobs praised in national report
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June 13, 2012
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Provided By: Institute for Women's Policy Research
Though federal highway funding is available to draw more women and minorities into construction-related trades and careers, few states have applied, the report says.
A briefing paper released today by the Institute for Women's Policy Research and Jobs for the Future cites Oregon and Maryland as having recently passed state laws that dedicate a portion of their federal highway construction funds for training and support services for women and minorities.
Maryland passed a bill in 2012 committing 0.5 percent of the state's surface transportation and building funds to training and related services for women and minorities, a sum amounting to $1.1 million annually.