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    :: Thursday, November 22, 2007 ::

    Rosie the Riveter, redux - Written by Annie Lok, greatreporter.com
    Only three percent of US construction workers are women. But with baby boomers about to retire, employers and labor unions need women more than ever...

    To increase the ranks of women in construction, the newly founded Rosie the Riveter Charter High School in California will start preparing careers in hard hats.
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