12.06.10: Women In Non Traditional Employment Roles (WINTER)

Construction work is one of those professions that is the distinct domain of men, for the most part and in most places in the world. Now that the housing and building bubble has burst, we’re going to visit with a couple of organizations that are thinking about how to make the construction workforce more diverse, more dynamic, and more equal in terms of who is trained and who is protected by the laws and the traditionally exclusive unions of the building trades. WINTER is an independent nonprofit organization founded by a group of tradeswomen who wanted to extend job opportunities to women in communities with less access to employment training and education. WINTER stands for Women In Non Traditional Employment Roles. Hear in the City producer Luis Sierra Campos visited a workshop where nineteen women of from the ages of 18 to 40 years are learning engineering and construction jobs. Hear in the City: Radio Realities from the Urban Landscape A Monday magazine on KPFK, 90.7FM, airs at 2:00pm, in Los Angeles with Sara Harris www.hearinthecity.org