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Who Build the World? Girls!

Driven by memories of being the only female student in her university’s construction-management program, a professor has launched a series of events whose name is their mission: Women in Construction.
By Grace Calengor
November 29, 2023
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by Grace Calengor
Grace Calengor is senior editor of Construction Executive. Prior to joining ABC in April 2023, she was managing editor of The Zebra Press in Alexandria, Virginia. She graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, in 2020 with two bachelor’s degrees in English and classics, and a minor in comparative literature.

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