Best Practices Case Study #3: Building Pathways Massachusetts on “If You Can See It, You Can Be It: Pipelines for Women Into the Trades.”

The Building Pathways Case Study Report, “If You Can See It, You Can Be It: Pipelines for Women into the Trades,” can be viewed or downloaded here.

See the Building Pathways case study presentation to UK industry stakeholders on June 9, 2022 here!

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Build A Life worksite fence scrims make tradeswomen visible

Meet Joan, Davy, Lindsey and Contina.

Build A Life‘s online Tradeswomen Tuesday begins with NABTU Tradeswomen’s recruitment video

PGTI’s One Pagers provide short introductions to policy and practice issues

• Access and Opportunity Committees (AOCs): Best practices for monitoring project workforce diversity “Starting a New AOC”
• The Case For Following State Laws Requiring the Hiring of Tradeswomen on State Construction Projects
• Ten Things Apprenticeship Programs Can do to Increase the Number of Women
• Model Language for Project Labor Agreements
• Policy Group on Tradeswomen’s Issues Model of Integrated Supply and Demand
• Gender Equity in the Construction Workforce
• Workforce Diversity in Public Construction

“A Collaborative Community Crushing the Barriers to Women’s Careers in the Construction Trades” (Moir and Skidmore), a chapter in the Chomsky and Striffler’s 2020 book Organizing for Power, describes the history of PGTI and how it began.