Women account for nearly 47% of America’s workforce, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But they represent less than 9% of all construction workers. One of the women in the field is Doreen ...

From the Jacksonville Business Journal. Amany Youssef didn't plan on pursuing a career in construction, but a family emergency forced her hand and has led her to forge her own path as a company owner ...

The Association of Women Contractors started out in 1995 as a legislative advocacy organization backed mainly by small highway contracting businesses. It had a straightforward aim: to effect state and ...

As the collective voice of women construction company owners in the Twin Cities, the St. Paul-based Association of Women Contractors has been a major force in helping women succeed in the construction ...

CLEVELAND, OH — Katherine Lehtinen serves as Senior Vice President of Marketing for Oatey Co. Oatey has been a manufacturer serving the residential and commercial plumbing trades since 1916, and now ...

When Floyd Simms founded his contracting business in 2003, he took his life’s savings and “bet it all on Simms,” he said. Like many minority contractors, he didn’t have the collateral or cash flow ...