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Business Daily: Female electrical line workers

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03/05/2023 GMT

Female electrical line workers

BBC World Service - Business Daily, Female electrical line workers

The women who work in very challenging conditions to keep the electricity flowing.

The women who work in very challenging conditions to keep electricity flowing to our homes and businesses.

Electrical line workers work all kinds of hours in very challenging conditions to keep electricity flowing to our homes and businesses. It's traditionally been a very male occupation but that's changing as more women break into the industry. 

We speak to Colombia’s first ever intake of female apprentice line workers about their intensive training experience, and Rosa Vasquez – one of the first women to do the job in Texas in 1978. Over in Kansas, Amy Fischbach, the Field Editor for T&D World magazine, is raising awareness of the trade in a podcast about women in line work. We also head to Pakistan where there are currently no women in this line of work, and head to Kansas hear from 

Presenter / producer: Olivia Wilson
Image: Apprentice line workers in Colombia; Credit: ISA

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