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In Live Wire, Francine Moccio brings to life forty years of public policy reform and advocacy that have failed to eliminate restricted opportunities for women in highly paid, skilled blue-collar jobs. Breaking barriers into a male-only occupation and trade, women electricians have found career opportunities in nontraditional work. Yet their efforts to achieve gender equality have also collided with the prejudice and fraternal values of brotherhood and factors that have ultimately derailed women's full inclusion.By drawing instructive comparisons of women's entrance int

Building trades --- Electric industry workers --- Sex discrimination against women --- Employees --- Labor unions --- Labor unions --- International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.