Sask Polytech encourages local women to take up a trade
One college professor wants to encourage women to pursue the trades, and to show them they really do belong in the male dominated field.
Tammie Pawlust, women in trades and technology coordinator at Saskatchewan Polytech, held a welding and carpentry workshop over the weekend to “de-mystify” the trades for women.
“I want to see more women out there making more money and being commonplace in the trades,” she said.
The first day of the workshop, participants built the frame of a shed, and the second day they welded their own projects. In November, they’ll return to spend one day learning electrical work and another, plumbing.