Inside San Francisco’s $1 million bet on female construction workers
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This training program is working to shake up the gender disparity in construction.
Mission Rock had a problem. The $2.5 billion waterfront development is transforming a parking lot near the San Francisco Giants stadium into a new neighborhood, but its workforce wasn’t meeting local targets. In 2021, Mayor London Breed, announced an initiative to prioritize workforce development for women in city projects, but Mission Rock’s workforce—like most big construction projects—was mostly male.