Numbers don’t lie — more and more women are building careers in construction, entering a field once occupied exclusively by men.
Over the past 20 years, the face of America’s construction workforce has changed. From 1985 to 2007, the number of women employed in the U.S. construction industry grew by 81.3 percent. Even though less than 10 percent of all U.S. construction workers are women, by 2011 there were already more than 800,000 women employed in various sectors of the construction industry (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics).