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:: Saturday, December 24, 2005 ::
Mayor Targets Women To Fill Void in Construction Market - By DANIELA GERSON, The New York Sun
She is a 21st-century take on Rosie the Riveter.
'We're looking for a few good women,' posters Mayor Bloomberg's office has plastered around the city proclaim. A muscular black woman donning a hardhat turned backwards and gripping a crowbar is the new poster woman advertising jobs in carpentry, electricity, plumbing, and painting. The ads tout: 'The average salary in the construction trades is $53,000.'------------------------------------------- posted 8:05 AM :: reference link ::
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