Women Building Futures (WBF)

By Anna Guy By 2026, The construction and mainte- nance industry will lose close to 250,000 skilled workers (Build Force). Women Building Futures is work- ing to fill that gap. I n 2018, there are approximately 6.2 million women in Canada between the ages of 20 and 44—an estimated 47 per cent of the Canadian labour force, and yet less than 4 per cent of the on-site construction and mainte- JULY 2018 | BUSINESS ELITE CANADA 3