FROM BEIJING TO BUILDING BRIDGES: A CHRONOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN TRADESWOMEN’S GLOBAL ORGANIZING
- 1995 – US Tradeswomen attend the Beijing Conference on Women and host what was thought to be the first international meeting of advocates and women working in construction
- 2006 – Electrician and professor Vivian Price’s movie, Transnational Tradeswomen, released
- 2015 – Researcher Susan Moir receives a Fulbright award for her proposal, “Building Bridges: A comparative study of women working in the construction trades in India and the US.”
- 2017 – The First Delegation of US Tradeswomen to India meets union leaders and advocates for women working in construction in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai
- 2017 and 2018 – Tradeswomen advocates from India and BWI attend Women Build Nations, the national tradeswomen’s conference in the US
- 2019 – The Second Delegation of US Tradeswomen to India visits the Archana Women’s Centre and BWI members and leaders in Kerala
- 2020 – Tradeswomen Building Bridges: The North American Network of Women Working in Construction is founded.
- 2022 – The Third Delegation of US Tradeswomen to London, UK – meets union tradeswomen, advocates, academics and politicians in London UK
Tradeswomen Building Bridges: the North American Network of Women Working in the Construction Trades 