CISCA is excited to invite all its lady members to participate in the first CISCA Women in Construction Group meeting being held in San Diego on Tuesday, Oct. 3 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. at Mission Bay Resort.

The pioneering African American woman architect Amaza Lee Meredith (born in 1895) is celebrated in one of the latest episodes of the New Angle: Voice audio documentary series created by Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation.

The legacies of Ada Louise Huxtable, the trailblazing New York Times and Wall Street Journal architecture critic, and the pioneering African American woman architect Amaza Lee Meredith are celebrated in the latest episodes of the New Angle: Voice audio documentary series.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a report entitled “Building for the Future: Advancing Equal Employment Opportunity in the Construction Industry.”

KEEN Utility, the work boot division of KEEN Footwear, has announced this year’s recipients of the She Builds Grant Program to champion the next generation of tradeswomen.

The Exceptional Women Alliance announced that after an expansive search and in-depth interview process, Gia Pignanelli Dowling, Corporate Vice President of People and Culture at Nicholas and Company, was selected as a Fall 2022 EWA Awardee.

Stephanie Parker, president of the South Florida Condo-HOA division at FirstService Residential, North America’s leading property management company, was recently named a 2023 Influential Business Woman by the South Florida Business Journal.

Bentley Systems announced CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Sheena Gaynes to the Women of the Channel list for 2023. Each year, CRN recognizes women from vendor, distributor and solution provider organizations whose expertise and vision are leaving a noticeable and commendable mark on the technology industry.

Just some surprising statistics to prepare the scene: in 2020, the Bureau of Labor stated approximately only 10 percent of the overall construction industry was women. By the end of 2022, after two long pandemic years, that number was only slightly higher at 11 percent.

The architecture and historic preservation firm Page & Turnbull has announced board appointments for two of the firm’s leaders: Melisa Gaudreau, AIA, in Sacramento, California, and Elisa Hernández Skaggs, AIA, in San Francisco.