In 1980, I may have been the first woman in the U.S. to take charge of building a skyscraper for an owner. And it was one of the most famous luxury residences in the world, the Trump Tower in New York City.
But before I had worked my way up in construction to executive vice president of the Trump Organization, I had to subject myself in the 1970s to harassment, humiliation and discrimination in the usual forms, such as magazine pinups of naked women, insults and outright prohibitions from going on-site.