In a loud building area, crouched beneath a sink, Barbara Cochran ignores the hardhat. She sometime...

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In a loud building area, crouched beneath a sink, Barbara Cochran ignores the hardhat.
She sometimes leaves it on after she gets off work, wears it throughout the drive back to her Oak
Hill house and also remembers it only when she slides out of the motorist's seat and also bumps her
head.
After that she rejoices she still has it on.
"Safety initially," she said with a smile
framed by pigtails in strict pigtails.
Below the 22-year-old's helmet is among
minority girls in the career.
Cochran is in her initial year of a drain
instruction with Daytona State
University.
She's currently functioning five days a
week on the Daytona Increasing project
at Daytona International Speedway
where she invests her time setting up components, laying pipelines, soldering water lines, as well as
sometimes running to get hold of a ladder since, at just 5 feet, she's too brief to reach particular
locations.
She is bordered by pipelines, sinks, males and tools. Bunches of men.
Of the almost 800 construction workers presently at the Speedway, regarding 15 are ladies. Cochran
is the only lady plumber in the bunch.
In 2014, the Bureau of Work Stats reported 9.8 million folks operating in the construction sector. Of
these, 872,000 of them, concerning 9 percent, were women. Girls are even much less represented in
the plumbing system occupation-- just 1.1 percent, baseding on 2013 data from the Work Bureau.