‘I really do feel like I live a double life.’ - Women carpenters with Southwest Carpenters are helping rebuild LA’s iconic 6th street bridge. Here’s what it’s like to be a woman in construction. In partnership with Time's Up.
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In US news and current events today, the iconic 6th street bridge in downtown Los Angeles is being rebuilt after it was deemed an earthquake hazard in 2016. Currently, the project has the highest number of women working on it than any other commercial project in Los Angeles.
Out of the approx 170 workers and specialists on site 15 of them are women. While 15 out of 170 might not sound like a lot it’s nearly double the 6.9% female participation goal for construction projects set by the national Department of Labor.
Many of the women working on the 6th street bridge project, never necessarily planned to end up in construction. 37-year-old Rosa Garcia, a mother of four, had worked in retail her whole life until while going through a divorce she learned about the BOOTS training program run by the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters union. The program prepares women for careers as carpenters.
24-year-old Chanel Waits was training to be a paramedic when her dad, who was a union carpenter for 42 years, suggested she look in to carpentry.
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