Carr

与其他13位女性建筑专业人士一起，我们成立了一个组织

Cindell

Wiops会员资格向从事运营，管理，估算和设计职业道路的建筑，建筑和工程领域工作的男女开放。

After listening to women share their experiences, we decided to initially focus on mentorship, because men in our business can find male mentors within their own organization. In contrast, women usually need to look outside.

WiOPS supplies the forum to meet other women who will share their experiences and provide guidance, advice and encouragement to equip each of us with the tools needed to excel in a non-traditional field.

该组织今天主要在南加州运营，已经从启动时只有少数成员发展到400多名男性和男性。

整个国家行业中其他人的好评清楚地表明，需要将妇女召集在一起，以互相学习并推动我们的行业前进。

By enabling women professionals to meet each other and share common challenges, they can obtain support and encouragement to forge ahead and advance in their careers.

在何鸿燊WiOPS成员还可以获得宝贵的见解w to influence their companies to develop programs to retain and increase women employed in operations roles and mentor them into future leaders.

Mentoring is at the heart of the WiOPS mission. We encourage men and women to be mentors to create and implement change and to develop practical solutions to potential challenges.

支持从麦卡锡WiOPS建筑Cos。,from employers of other participating members, has been positive. We just need more of it.

We want WiOPS to give women the strength to ask the right questions so they can excel in the field they have chosen, while still finding work-life balance. The question we all want to know is, “How can I have it all while creating value for my company?”

The right answer may be a non-traditional one, which is why companies may think it is too difficult to develop a solution. We believe the results will be worth meeting the challenge.

有许多有韧性的女性发现了对建筑的热爱。我们的希望是帮助选择该行业的职业发展和发展的妇女，以便她们及其雇主可以繁荣发展。

许多公司已经加入WIOPS，找到可以使妇女保持建筑劳动力并发展为领导者的解决方案。我们希望其他人也能，这样我们都可以从我们的集体努力中获得回报。

For more information about membership or to sign up to attend the next WiOPS meeting, please visit www.womeninoperations.com.

莎拉·卡尔（Sarah Carr）是McCarthy Building Cos。的教育服务运营副总裁，可以通过scarr@mccarthy.com与您联系，Holly Cindell是McCarthy的项目总监，可以通过hcindell@mccarthy.com与您联系。他们位于加利福尼亚州纽波特海滩，是Wiops和当前联合主席的联合创始人。

An impending workforce shortfall is a clear trend in the construction industry—as baby boomers retire, fewer U.S. graduate engineers choose an industry career, and an improving economy and energy revolution ramp up demand for skilled workers. Yet despite some recent increase in focus, women still account for less than 10% of the total construction industry workforce, with an even smaller number in professional or managerial positions. Now more than ever, it is critical to take advantage of a highly skilled and diverse talent pool by attracting more women into our workforce and allowing them to develop the same kind of rewarding and successful careers as men. To do that, we need more female mentors.In 2013, we set out to raise awareness among all construction professionals—men and women—about the unique challenges women face in the construction industry.called Women in Construction Operations (WiOPS), specifically tailored to women now working or seeking careers in this critical, but non-traditional area of jobsite and project management.