AEC Doesn’t Discriminate: Breaking Down Barriers for Women in Construction, Design and Engineering with Tiffany Sharp

Most industries don’t discriminate. People do! There are hardly any jobs that require a specific gender (think of roles in the entertainment sector, a few sport careers, catholic priests). And so, one might wonder: “Why are most industries/jobs male-dominated?” The truth is that it has nothing to do with the capacity of women. This phenomenon is more related to the amount of guidance and support that women receive in terms of finding a career/securing their place in almost any given industry, including the AEC. Thankfully, many agencies in the private and public sectors have been working on ways to tear down these barriers!