5 Fueling the Future of Women in Industry

Stephanie Hajducek

This One’s for the Gals, USA

DOI: 10.1201/9781032679518-6

The vibration from my cell phone woke me up way too early on a Saturday morning back in 2006. As I reached for my nightstand, my first instinct was to decline the call so I could roll over and go back to sleep, but I must have hit the wrong button because the voice of my friend Matt, a guy I’d known since elementary school, came blaring through the speaker. “Stephanie are you dressed to go to Bechtel’s job fair?” he asked. I remember putting my hand on my head as I was about to break the news to him that I decided I wasn’t going. I’d never been to the Galleria area in Houston, much less stepped foot inside the building of one ...

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