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Toolbelts and hard hats: the road to female financial freedom?

March 21, 2014Business, Economics and Jobs

Why aren’t more women pursuing higher paying, blue-collar jobs in male-dominated fields as a career? Beth Kobliner, author of ‘Get a Financial Life,’ explains. And Rochelle James, a female union electrician in New York, shares her own career change.

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