By Gina DiPietro, Duke Illumination Staff Writer Atop an 86-foot dam in central North Carolina, Duke Energy’s Becky Rollins looks out over the Pee Dee River. It’s beautiful, she said, motioning below. The floodgates at Tillery Hydroelectric Plant, in service...
Earlier in June, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Charlotte A. Burrows issued a report titled, “Building For The Future: Advancing Equal Employment Opportunity in the Construction Industry.” It provides findings and next steps based on the...
By Nicole Needles, NCCER The time for women in construction has come. Historically, the construction industry has been male-dominated, with women making up only 11% of the workforce. Whether women are intimidated by the lack of representation in the workforce or the...