Female Construction Workers

Released: 2022-03-09

Runtime: 45 minutes

Episode Overview

Construction veteran Tanja has been working on the pile driver for 25 years and today she is going to build the foundation for a sewer in Amsterdam. Crane operator Jessica is going to lift a speed with her tower crane in the Rotterdam region. Plasterer in training Nadine goes to plastering school and sisters Angela and Jacqueline give a tour of the warehouse of their reinforcing steel braiding company.

Series Overview

Women in construction are still very much in the minority. The figures speak for themselves: of all construction workers, only 8 percent are women. But those women certainly stand their ground! With the same ease with which they use a curling iron, these tough ladies operate a crane, concrete mixer or bulldozer.