AEMP WOMEN
IN EQUIPMENT LEADERSHIP
The She Get It Done foundation creates and supports construction career opportunities using social media and podcasts to explain and promote the trades to more women BY GEORGIA KRAUSE
A
Leadership, a round table discussion on how to lead more women into construction careers and the supporting trades. The women who participated in the round table discussion spoke with authority about what today’s women leaders can do to encourage willing employers and able women to team up to build successful careers. According to a 2019 analysis from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), between 2017 and 2018, the number of women working in production trades increased by 17.6 percent to 276,000 workers. While over a quarter of a million females in production and extraction is notable, the reality is that just 3.4 percent of these field jobs were held by
woman in construction is no longer an oxymoron. Technical, cultural, and industry changes are creating career opportunities for women in construction that just a few years ago didn’t seem possible or even exist. Now that the stereotypes, misconceptions, and stigmas of females in equipment management jobs have faded into the past, women with established construction careers are finding they have a unique opportunity to help guide more females into what were once called ‘non-traditional jobs’ in construction. During this year’s CONNECT 2020 in Las Vegas, AEMP hosted Women in Equipment
20 2 1 | A E M P .O R G
PAGE
66
Journal of Equipment Management
AEMP
