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Empowering Women in Craft and Leadership Roles

March 27, 2023

Via: ENR
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Labor continues to be the most pressing issue facing our industry—and that’s saying something, given the roller coaster of the last several years. We’re looking at mass retirements and a shortage of hundreds of thousands of workers in the coming years. At the same time, women remain vastly underrepresented in both craft and leadership roles: Just under 11% of the industry workforce and 3.7% of all tradespeople are women.

At this point, companies everywhere are aware of the imperative to expand and diversify our labor pool—but few companies have figured out just how. For years, Mortenson has prioritized expanding awareness of careers in the construction industry and then creating work environments that help attract and keep women and underrepresented audiences in this field for the long haul.

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