{"id":2021,"date":"2010-08-05T09:47:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T17:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carmenelectrode.com\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2010-08-05T09:47:21","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T17:47:21","slug":"introducting-women-to-welding-careers-in-mcallen-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.arc-zone.com\/carmenelectrode\/2010\/08\/05\/introducting-women-to-welding-careers-in-mcallen-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Women to Welding Careers in McAllen Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special shout out to Becky at<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolnelectric.com\"> Lincoln Electric<\/a> for sending me this link&#8230; \u00a0she knows this is an area of special interest to me (as do all of you who read this website on a regular basis). \u00a0I&#8217;ve been doing a bit of research myself lately and was disheartened to learn that according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics the percentage of women working in the welding industry has actually declined&#8211; it is now LOWER than the 6% I&#8217;ve been quoting.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, check out this program geared towards getting women interested in careers in the male dominated trades&#8211; like welding! \u00a0and let me know if your workplace or school has a special outreach program. I&#8217;d love to share your stories!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><a href=\"\/blog\/carmenelectrode\/wp-content\/uploads\/leftquote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1756\" title=\"leftquote\" src=\"\/blog\/carmenelectrode\/wp-content\/uploads\/leftquote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a>Ladies Night entices female students to male-heavy careers<\/h2>\n<p>by Neal Morton,\u00a0The Monitor<\/p>\n<p>McALLEN \u2014 Elizabeth Robertson understands why manufacturing, welding or plumbing don\u2019t exactly sound like expected career choices for women.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsually they\u2019re pushed to teaching or nursing,\u201d the 28-year-old said. \u201cIt\u2019s typical to think of men going out and working their tools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A mechanical engineering student, though, Robertson embodied the evolving gender makeup of technology jobs when she attended South Texas College\u2019s Ladies Night on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonitor.com\/articles\/male-41519-careers-mcallen.html\">CONTINUE READING AT THE MONITOR&#8211;&gt;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special shout out to Becky at Lincoln Electric for sending me this link&#8230; \u00a0she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-welding-education","entry","fw-tab-6 fw-tabr-4"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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