In 2015, the photo of a woman wearing a protective helmet and holding a homemade placard went viral. The sign reads: “I need feminism because ‘who hired a stripper’ shouldn’t be the first thing said when I’m at a welding job.” Did you know that women make up less than 3% of the workers in construction trades? The ratio has not changed in the last 30 years, even though women make up 40-50% of the workforce in all other industries. What’s more, each year 38x more men finish their apprenticeships than women, and the dropout […]