More than 2,500 tradeswomen convened in Minneapolis recently for the "Tradeswomen Build Nations" conference, all of whom wear hard hats while electrifying commercial buildings, operating cranes, welding and pipe fitting.
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Nearby, metal smelters hammered weapons into shape, spice merchants prepared remedies and tradeswomen spun and dyed wool.
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North America's building trades unions are leading the way to recruit more tradeswomen, and offering attractive incentives.
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Jessica Stender is a Senior Staff Attorney at Equal Rights Advocates, a national civil rights nonprofit, and co-chairs the Policy Committee of the national Taskforce on Tradeswomen Issues.
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Earlier this week, Henry kickstarted a #SeeHerWork social media and live event campaign in Houston, where she invited local tradeswomen to share their job experiences and talk about opportunities for women in their industries.
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Although legal remedies are available to women who are harassed, "because of the nature of construction culture, you're probably giving up your livelihood in construction if you file a complaint," said Meg Vasey, executive director of Tradeswomen Inc.
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Some union insiders say that Biden's union appeal may be limited to the "old guard" — the high-skilled tradesmen and tradeswomen, such as electricians, steelworkers and firefighters — at a time when the grass-roots energy is concentrated on the progressive left and a new generation of unions, often led by women or people of color who represent lower-skilled workers in the public and service sectors.
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She became noted for working on "time- and motion-saving"Jolly, Bob. "Streetcar Windshield Wipers and Swinging Streetcleaning Carts." Tradeswomen Apr 30 1997: 20-. GenderWatch. Web. 31 May 2012 design of kitchens and interiors.
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The Cooperative also provided courses on technical drawing for trainee tradeswomen, on the building process for workers and client groups, and on building law, casting general structures and construction for practising tradeswomen. A course on technical drawing that started as a consultative tool for Dalston Children's Centre was developed further for use on women builders' training schemes, particularly at Women's Education in Building (WEB), a group delivering projects on behalf of Learning and Skills Councils in West and Central London. Some of this work helped the development of a Women into Architecture and Building (WIAB) access course at the Polytechnic of North London (later University of North London, then London Metropolitan University) founded by Yvonne Dean with many women from Matrix involved as tutors, and with Matrix co-founder Susan Francis as course leader for a number of years.
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Women have been involved in the printing trades since Gutenberg's day, mostly as widows, wives, and daughters.See List of women music publishers before 1900. Many of them had highly successful careers, but Bailey's stands out for its five decade tenure. As such she can be seen very much as a part of a long tradition which was based on commercial production patterns prior to the Industrial Revolution that relied heavily on these tradeswomen for their business acumen.
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It is an evening in eighteenth-century Venice. In a square on the Grand Canal, with a view across to the Ducal Palace and the Isle of San Giorgio, people stroll around as the sun goes down, while the tradeswomen call out their wares. The young Neapolitan macaroni cook Pappacoda observes that, for all the splendours of the city, Venetians do not have everything without their macaroni cook. "Macaroni as long as the Grand Canal, with as much cheese as there is sand in the Lido" – that is what Pappacoda offers.
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" — LA WEEKLY HOUSE BUILDING TIME (1989) Conceived, choreographed, directed and produced by Pottenger to celebrate the 1st National Tradeswomen Conference, in Chicago Illinois in 1989. House Building Time was a 15-minute choreographed construction of a small house, including framing out the walls, windows and door, wiring an overhead light, plumbing water, and setting a roof of rafter trusses. It featured a team of working women, real carpenters, plumbers, electricians and laborers, all in yellow slickers. High Performance wrote: "Pottenger transformed the attendees notion of 'artwork' by creating a performance piece that included real laborers, and she introduced others to the possibility of their own creativity.
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