On "Celebrating the Women Shaping HVACR’s Future"

The Top Women in HVAC program matters because it's documenting something real: women are solving actual workforce problems in a trade that desperately needs them, and visibility changes who shows up to apprenticeship programs. This isn't about feel-good recognition—it's about the fact that shops struggling to hire have barely looked in this direction, and the women in this program are proof that the bottleneck is cultural, not talent. If you're running a contracting company and haven't seriously asked whether your hiring and mentoring practices are keeping women out, this is the signal that you're leaving workers on the table while your competitors figure it out.