Publication: Hard-Hatted Women: Life On The Job

• Martin, Molly

LCCN: 97-129773

In this lively collection, twenty-six women talk about
their experiences in "non-traditional," blue-collar work.
Employed in a wide range of occupations - as ironworkers,
carpenters, truck drivers, electricians, sprinkler fitters,
subway operators, welders - the women vividly describe the
large and small challenges of life on the job. Their candid
first-person narratives express common themes: the drive to
prove oneself in trades where women are still vastly
underrepresented, the struggles with harassment from male
co-workers, the growing self-confidence from new-found
skills, the sweet success of conquering previously
unthinkable challenges - and earning "men's wages" for it.