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As a child, Cora Saxton liked to make things—forts, whittled wood carvings, a flying saucer even—so when she became an electrician at 49, it felt like a perfect fit. “I like the puzzle-solving and ...

For female electricians time has stood still. While women are gaining rank and numbers in many other highly-paid fields, here the numbers are stuck at token levels of about 1 percent. An annual ...

With the high price of tuition at four-year colleges and Americans owing nearly $2 billion in student loan debt, some young people are questioning the benefits of a traditional bachelor’s degree and ...

SPOKANE-- Apprenticeship programs are common in trades like plumbing, carpentry and electricity. Electricians typically make the highest of all the other trades, especially close to the west coast.

As a child, Tonya Hicks was fascinated by car engines. She spent her summers in her grandparents’ garage with her uncle, an industrial mechanic, who taught her how to build a motor from scrap by the ...

This is Mentoring Moments, a series of WOW-you-need-to-know-these stories from successful women of multiple generations. Mentoring Moments is now a podcast. Jane Wurwand is a self-made woman who gives ...

The first day of in-person classes of her electrician training course, Maria Rocio Brito stayed behind with the instructor after class while the rest of her classmates left. She needed to understand ...

Ironworker Lissette Rossi can be on the same job all week, constructing the skeletons of buildings at 50 feet in the air with her union Local 399 in Camden. Still, after three days feeling comfortable ...