Female Techs: Low Numbers, But Plenty of Opportunity
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2,000 women worked as hvacr technicians in 1999. Though it represents less than 1% of the total 310,000, the number still surprises most people, who figure that females who lift compressors for a living are about as rare as chillers in Alaska.
“That’s cool,” says Terri Jacobs, a service technician in Austin, TX. “I had no idea there were so many of us.”