Jamie Gentoso was young when she got her first taste of construction.
It was her architecture class at East Lansing High School in Michigan. One of the class projects involved designing a home for a family on a specific plot of land, using a set budget. She loved solving a complex problem with various constraints and thought architecture would be… more
Stepping away from work, while we’re all sheltering at home because of the pandemic, has never been more difficult.
But a group of building executives recently shared their secrets to balancing home, family, and their professional lives, during a July 30 virtual meeting of the Women Executives in Building leadership series.
Ideas ran the gamut,… more
When it comes to boosting diversity, equity and inclusion in the building industry, it will require a host of changes, starting with awareness.
Awareness comes at many levels, from minorities and young women entering the workforce seeing diversity in leadership positions, to awareness of how technology has changed women’s views and experience… more
International Women’s Day is March 8.
According to the IWD site, “The race is on for the gender equal boardroom, a gender equal government, gender equal media coverage, gender equal workplaces, gender equal sports coverage, more gender equality in health and wealth.”
This has been a work in progress over several years, but we’re not there yet.… more
It’s not every day that you gather a room full of female executives to talk about tough issues like diversity, inclusion, and management in the nonprofit built environment.
But that’s exactly what happened Friday, Oct. 4, when the National Institute of Building Sciences hosted the first Women Executives in Building Summit.
“It starts with us,”… more
