We tip our construction hats to all the strong, fearless, female construction workers. An article was recently written in The Philadelphia Citizen that mentions two of our very own union carpenters!

“My first job was really big—the UPenn Pavilion,” Yiantselis recalls. “I was really proud of that. I went in there, and I said to myself: I want to see the job out to the end, or as close to the end as I can get. I got certifications to do certain types of finish work that were going to be in this hospital, and I was there for a long time.”

Yiantselis is a carpenter, one of only 5.5 percent of carpenters who are women in Philadelphia, which unfortunately boasts the second-lowest percentage of women employed in the industry in the U.S. She is a third-year apprentice and graduate of the Carpenters’ Apprentice Ready Program (CARP), which is designed to introduce the basic principles of carpentry, while developing the skills necessary for acceptance into an apprenticeship.

Read more of this amazing story here!

Happy National Women in Construction Week!