Maja Rosenquist is senior vice president at Mortenson. She is passionate about workforce development and elevating the role of women in construction.
Labor continues to be the most pressing issue facing our industry—and that’s saying something, given the roller coaster of the last several years. We’re looking at mass retirements and a shortage of hundreds of thousands of workers in the coming years. At the same time, women remain vastly underrepresented in both craft and leadership roles: Just under 11% of the industry workforce and 3.7% of all tradespeople are women.