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More womens * USA - Take the wheel in U.S. trucking industry
Des Plaines,Ill,USA -Reuters, by Nick Carey -Aug 3, 2007: -- For Carrie Walters and Linda Reynolds, becoming a truck driver was the fulfilment of a childhood dream... American women have been driving trucks since the late 1920s. In World War Two, thousands of women took to trucking as men were called up to fight. The number of women in the industry fell sharply after those men returned from war... But today Walters and Reynolds are part of a small but growing minority. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2006 182,000 or 5.2 percent of the country's 3.5 million truck drivers and similar workers were women, up from 84,000 or 3.5 percent of 2.4 million in 1983... One reason for this is the U.S. trucking industry is suffering from a shortage of qualified drivers from their traditional core demographic of middle-aged white men... Labels: womans in trucking
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