Fresno Business Journal, April 27, 2022
As more women continue to build paths in various industries that have typically been male dominated—tech, manufacturing, trucking, construction—they are also building more opportunities as well as buildings.
In March, The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) of California, a state chapter of ABC, a national construction trade association, celebrated “Women in Construction Week”, highlighting the initiatives and work of women within in the industry.
“Women in Construction Week” was introduced in 1960 by the National Association of Women in Construction, which was founded in 1953.
Though more women have entered the construction industry in recent decades, women still only make up 10.9% of the people working in the construction industry, according to 2021 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The number shrinks for the number of women working on a job site with only 1 of every 100 employees working in the field, according to multinational human resource consulting firm Randstad NV.
Just under 87% of women working in construction hold office positions.
Even with these figures, there are local women in the industry that are building careers and opportunities in the Central Valley.
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