#ThankYou to all the #lineworkers who have been restoring power and other services to us waterlogged Californians.

"For the first few weeks when we arrived, we overlapped with another group of trainees – men – and my partner wasn’t happy about it. Having first insisted I sign up, he was suddenly telling me to choose between him and the training,” she says. “I chose to continue training.”

Colombia's first female lineworkers under a new women only apprenticeship scheme attracted 733 applications for just 15 places.

#Colombia #Lineworkers #Diversity #EqualOpportunity

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/dec/30/colombia-first-female-electrical-line-workers