Over the next decade, there will be 533,000 good middle-skill jobs available in manufacturing. Yet only 7 percent of workers in these jobs are women, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research.
Chicago is back on track to once again manufacture rail cars for the Chicago Transit Authority. The new factory will employ around 170 workers and create almost another 130 construction jobs. CRRC has also committed to spend millions for training
In two public plazas this month, the New York City Department of Transportation (DOT) is using art to showcase the women who weld steel, wire trains, and paint bridges, all in honor of Women’s History Month.
When Elisangela Oliveira is high above the city painting bridges, she’s also helping to break glass ceilings. Oliveira, a bridge painter for nearly 20 years, and a host of other women who help build and shape the country’s transportation infrastructure
On International Women’s Day, a new exhibit celebrates women who help to move New Yorkers. NY1’s Jose Martinez filed the following report.
In honor of Women’s History Month, Jobs to Move America and the New York City Department of Transportation announced the launch of the Women Can Build photography exhibit revealing the contributions of women building 21st Century transportation, including trams, rail,
NYC’s Department of Transportation is unveiling a new photo exhibit on Wednesday.
Verónica Albornoz nos muestra cómo la Gran Manzana reconoce el esfuerzo, la lucha y el trabajo de todas las mujeres en el Día Internacional de la Mujer.
Women employed in industry and manufacturing are grossly outnumbered by men in the US, but a new exhibition sponsored by Jobs to Move America and the NYC department of transportation pays tribute to the women who build America’s infrastructure. Women
The project reveals the overlooked contributions, and decline in hiring since WWII, of the skilled and hard-working women who build our 21st Century transportation including trams, rail, buses, bridges, roads and streets.
