Archinect - News 2024-11-23T08:43:31-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150163818/tools-tiaras-empowering-girls-for-a-career-in-construction-and-for-life-itself Tools & Tiaras: empowering girls for a career in construction — and for life itself Alexander Walter 2019-10-09T15:56:00-04:00 >2019-10-10T13:48:24-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/21/218ae05d6835d7f6f0b57a62fa06f30e.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>That&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;m trying to do with Tools &amp; Tiaras: Have girls start envisioning that it&rsquo;s normal for a woman to be an ironworker, to be my sister, to be working with me. Our stories are not told; no woman really knows: &ldquo;Wow, she looks like me. She&rsquo;s only four feet eleven and seven eighths and she&rsquo;s doing plumbing? I can do it.&rdquo; Society needs to change the way we portray what is women&rsquo;s work and what tradespeople look like.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Judaline Cassidy, a New York-based plumber and the founder/director of the nonprofit <a href="http://www.toolsandtiaras.org/" target="_blank">Tools &amp; Tiaras Inc</a>, explains her struggles to break into the overwhelmingly male-dominated construction industry (only 3.4 percent of construction trades workers are women), the progress that has been made in recent years, and how she hopes to boost female participation in the architecture, construction, and engineering workforce of this young, next generation.</p> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B1_yR4-ArEr/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> View this post on Instagram </a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B1_yR4-ArEr/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">Let's hear for the girls!! New Jersey camp week was #dreamlit They came conquered and slayed all that was put in front of them. Welding Architectural Plumbing Sheet Metal Carpentry Electrical. Thanks @american_standard @kiewitcorp and Morris Community Center for helping us bring our Tools &amp; Tiaras camp to New Jersey. #girlscamp #girlsintrades #theyneedtheirownshow #constructionsite #girlsbuildingempires #explorethetrades</a><br> A post shared by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tools_n_tiaras/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> Tools &amp; Tiaras Inc.&reg;&#65039;</a> (@tools_n_tiaras) on Sep 4, 201...