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FACT:
Construction related jobs account for approximate 66% of all jobs in the U.S.

The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) originally began as Women in Construction of Fort Worth, Texas. It was founded in 1953 by 16 women working in the construction industry. Knowing that women represented only a small fraction of the construction industry, the founders organized NAWIC to create a support network. Women in Construction of Fort Worth was so successful that it gained its national charter in 1955 and became the National Association of Women in Construction.
FACT

Women make up 77% of all restaurant wait staff, who earn, on average, $6.55 an hour. In contrast, truck drivers make an average of $17.50 an hour, yet only 5% of truckers are women.
The Greater East Bay chapter is part of Region 10 which encompasses chapters from as far north as Marin to the south with the Pinnacles chapter; this includes: San Francisco, Monterey, Sacramento, Fresno, Delta Valley and Santa Clara counties.

All chapters hold monthly meetings designed to help women in the construction industry network wth each other and educate themselves about the industry.

Chapter 30 prides itself on touring many local landmarks and building sites. Some of our past tours include:
The Caldecott Tunnel
The San Francisco Bay Bridge
One Rincon Tower
Kaiser Permanente
Fox Theater Oakland
San Francisco Dump - Artist in Residence Program

Click the "Tours" page to see photos.

NAWIC CHAPTER 30 GREATER EAST BAY

PRESIDENTS REPORT 2011-2012,

 

One of my favorite quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt is, “A women is like a teabag, you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” This quote reminds me of the strong smart women in NAWIC.  Chapter 30’s year with Christina Sedighi as our Chapter president, however, just as she was settling down into her Presidential role, she was relocated by her company, Atkinson Construction, to Los Angeles in October.  While this was a great loss to our Chapter, we wish Christina well in all of her career endeavors and hope to have her back one day. 

But Chapter 30 being full of independent strong women, our board members came together and we formed a new board.  I went from being the Chapter Vice-President to becoming the Chapter President.

Chapter 30 sent a survey to our Chapter members this year to see what is important to our members.  We found that location of the event, networking opportunities and the professional education were important to our members.  Listening to what our membership wants we have hosted wonderful speakers at our Chapter meetings with topics are relevant to the construction industry.  These have included engineers who spoke about the building of the Caldecott Tunnel, Skip Vandeventer of Simplex Grinnell who talked about fire alarms and fire systems, as well as Anna Hertzman, Corporate Council for Swinerton Inc., who talked about the importance of subcontracts to name a few.  You can now find us on Facebook, we are growing and evolving.

For WIC week on March 29th, we hosted a Construction Industry Networking Event, at the Builders Exchange of Alameda in San Leandro, open to everyone.  The event was a success! We meet many other companies that we could network with as well as having Diana Whitehead; Chapter 30’s past president speak about Effective Networking.  For WIC week we had, Pleasanton, Fremont, Hayward, Oakland and Benicia proclaim March 4-10, 2012 as “Women in Construction Week”.

Coming up in May we are going to do a membership drive at a Blue Book Event in San Ramon, to get the word out to construction companies about NAWIC.