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Pride Month Profiles: Irene Soloway
… the work and the Carpenters union opened its doors to women. She became a member in 1979, when she began the Women in Apprenticeship Program . Soloway and other women were made to feel that they belong, that the program was more than tokenism. … of rank-and-file members, women or otherwise, were largely ignored in her local at the time. She said: The union and the apprenticeship in the Carpenters Union was now what I would consider sexist...we were never discriminated against within the … a Women's Committee that would address the issues of women in construction. We actually came in with ideas about how the apprenticeship school could be more in touch with the apprentices around issues of ethnicity and race and issues....And what …