“Construction is a great industry for women. It’s been a wonderful, wonderful career for me.”

That’s Jacqueline Horowitz, a 33-year construction industry veteran, currently a project executive with Plaza Construction, working on a new high rise at 99 Hudson Street in Jersey City.

Like many women in construction, she says she’s faced challenges in a traditionally male-dominated industry, but she “puts on her pink sunglasses and looks the other way,” focusing on the benefits of the career and the value she knows she brings to it.

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