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“Believe it or not, the guys on construction sites have good manners,” she said. “The chain of command is longer than normal… It takes 10 times as long to get anything done.”įisher, 39, spoke of her male co-workers with affection and a trace of condescension. “It’s different than any of the other jobs I’ve worked on,” Fisher said. The biggest challenges of the job come not from their minority status but from the job itself, the women said.Īrlene Fisher, a surveyor at One World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, said the most difficult thing she has to do is navigate the red tape associated with rebuilding ground zero. While Bobb said women remain very much in the minority and occasionally face harassment or poor work conditions, those who spoke to Downtown Express this month did not describe an atmosphere of negativity or discrimination. “It’s not a man’s world anymore,” said Beverly Bobb, who manages the command center’s equal-opportunity programs. The Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center runs several programs to attract women and minorities to work sites Downtown, including classes and job placement assistance. Women at several large construction sites said they work with hundreds of men but just a handful of women. In Lower Manhattan, where so much construction has flooded the neighborhood that the city and state created a command center to keep track of it all, the numbers do not appear to be much different, though no one collects the statistics. On the whole, women represent 2.5 percent of the total workers in the construction and excavation industry, up from 2.1 percent 20 years ago, the Dept. Other trades are even more skewed toward men – in the same 2008 study, the most unbalanced of all professions in the country was bricklaying, which boasted only one woman for every 230 men. For every 65 male carpenters, there is only one female carpenter, according to a 2008 U.S.
Johns, 35, is one of the rare women who choose carpentry as a career. “They don’t really bother me,” she said of her male co-workers. “I wear the ring as a decoy,” Johns said, laughing as she ate lunch on the edge of the construction site on a recent afternoon. The engagement ring look-alike, which Johns bought for herself, also keeps her safe – from the attentions of the dozens of men she works with. The hard hat keeps her safe as she builds the new Goldman Sachs headquarters Downtown. Ashia Johns goes to work every day wearing a white hard hat on her head and a flashy white-gold diamond ring on her left hand.
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