Women in HVAC/R
HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs
Bryan Orr
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Colleen Keyworth from Women in HVAC/R comes on the podcast to talk about the importance of getting women excited about our trade.
While many women take up administrative roles in HVAC/R companies, very few women work in the field. Schools don't tend to market trade schools to women (or in general), so we can attribute part of the gender gap to how high schools present career options to people. Women in HVAC/R as an organization helps educate young women about career options in the trades. Colleen also has a very positive view of the industry and the values that contractors tend to promote.
In general, women just want to be treated the same as men; women who go for HVAC careers want to be part of the rule, not seen as the exception. Colleen believes that female techs don't require any special considerations as long as the company culture is already intact. To get women interested in the field and set them up for success, we just need to be clear about expectations and what the job entails; the heavy lifting is only a small part of the job, and the physical disadvantage sometimes gets overblown.
The pillars of Women in HVAC/R are membership, sponsorship, mentorship, ambassador programs, and networking. Memberships are for all people who have a common goal of promoting a greater female presence in the HVAC/R industry, regardless of gender. The ambassador program is what really focuses on reaching out to young women in high schools.
Colleen and Bryan also discuss:
- Women's success in sales
- How women overcome the physical strength gap
- Support of men in the HVAC industry
- Non-inclusive environments in the past
- Generational differences
Learn more about Women in HVAC/R and consider becoming a member at womeninhvacr.org/.
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| 1:08.8 | verb. |
| 1:09.8 | Brian Orr. |
| 1:11.6 | This is the HVAC School Podcast, the podcast that helps you remember some things you might have |
| 1:14.9 | forgotten along the way as well as helps you remember some things you forgot to know in the first place |
| 1:17.8 | and today is an episode. |
| 1:18.8 | I'm excited about because it's a little different. |
| 1:20.9 | I say that a lot, a little different, but today is definitely a little different. I say that a lot a little different but today is definitely a little |
| 1:23.4 | different because we're talking with calling Keyworth from women in HVACR which is an organization that helps just generally |
| 1:31.6 | promote women in HVACR which I think is an important thing. |
| 1:34.5 | 50% of the population are women, actually a little bit more than that and we're not taking |
| 1:39.4 | advantage of the skills that women have in our trade to its full potential and I think it's |
| 1:43.7 | something that we're miss if we don't do and so it's one of these conversations |
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