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Trade jobs are not just for men, they are for women too. While in 1978 only 2% of jobs in construction were held by women, women are more accepted in the trades than ever in history. Click on this image to check out a website all about women in the trades.
According to a 2017 survey by the the Associated General Contractors of America, Iowa's construction employers do have a deficit finding workers in these fields. 83% stated that they were having trouble filling craft positions specifically. Nationally, filling these hourly craft positions is a also a major difficulty with 70% in the construction industry who they surveyed saying that they are having difficulty here.