Status of Women committee  Only in the administration end.

Status of Women committee  I only took one day off after I had my babies and I was back in the office. I can't really speak to that end of it. I took my babies with me to work, and my mother worked in the office at that time, so we had day care in the office. That was a huge aspect of it. I don't know if I

Status of Women committee  What was the question?

Status of Women committee  Any kind of literature, anything to encourage women to get into the industry, is a start. It is a hard industry, and women have to be able to stand up to the industry. I'm not saying it's just men; I'm saying it's a hard industry. When you send out crews, they go out to a specifi

Status of Women committee  No, there were no women in the construction industry when I started. My father was a business owner, and that's how I got in. I believe that to make the industry attractive to women there have to be more women. You don't want to send one woman out to a construction field where

Status of Women committee  Harassment exists and will always exist, whether you have a different colour of skin or a different nationality. It's just part of the world. But I believe in the construction industry. I know it has changed a lot over the years. Women are more involved in the construction indust

Status of Women committee  I don't know. I haven't been there. It depends on which job you're looking at. For on-site engineers, for example, there are women coming into the industry all the time when 10 years ago they weren't there. It used to be only me in Manitoba, and now I've seen on-site engineers wh

Status of Women committee  I believe discrimination is still in effect, possibly has been there from the beginning of time, and will continue to be there until people change their attitudes towards women.

Status of Women committee  I believe those are two completely separate issues. Technology does make it easier for women, but the employers also have to be willing to open the doors to hire women, or women have to start their own construction businesses. So the opportunity has to be there.

Status of Women committee  Good afternoon. My name is Debbie Penner. I live in Winkler, Manitoba. I am a mother of three and a wife of 20 years. I also work at Dig-All Construction, a family-run business. The scope of our business is installing sewer and waterlines. The majority of our work is for the pr