Can men in construction ever learn to behave professionally with female colleagues?
Ive always been curious about how women cope in the male-dominated construction industry. (About 11% of employed engineers of all kinds are women, according to recent government data.) So I started talking about it over Moroccan food with a couple of friends who had just landed their first jobs doing ADA inspection work for an established engineering firm in Manhattan. They are young, attractive, smart, and female, and are proud to be project engineers. Throughout the night, though, they continually joked about the treatment from men at their office.