ConstructionDive.com reports that five of the women transportation professionals who talk about their careers in 2015’s Boots On the Ground, Flats in the Boardroom, including HNTB’s Mary Jane O’Meara, told a recent, male-dominated conference session that workplace diversity has both business and moral benefits. The website notes, “The transportation sector . . . is facing the same challenge as construction: drawing women into the business and keeping them from leaving. Females represent only . . . 12% of the transportation industry, but they make up 47% of the total U.S. workforce.”
