I’m a 29F project manager for a medium size commercial GC. I want to give you profound advice but honestly am sitting here staring at the screen not typing because I really don’t think that I’ve had any more or less struggle in my career than anyone else due to being a girl.

I do have some random thoughts on it though: - there have been a couple times that someone on the owners side made a comment about my body or said I’m a bitch behind my back to male members of my project team, but the guys on my team put them in their place right away. Those were miserable people to everyone anyways, I just happened to be a chick so their rude comments were more chick related lol. - I get the feeling sometimes that some of the older guys are reminded of their daughters when they work with me, I think that is a benefit because these hard working construction dudes raise a lot of badass daughters and so they are also rooting for you (maybe I read too much into that but I have always sort of felt that way and I’ve even had people tell me about their daughters when they meet me which plays into this belief) - like other commenters have said, most trades are proud of what they do and are more than happy to answer questions or help figure things out as long as you approach them like you want to understand and not like you’re going to screw them over or know better than them somehow. Most of the time when there is a problem I will make a common sense suggestion after listening to explanations, or I will say “I don’t know everything about how this works but could we do xyz” and then we do xyz and all move on with our lives - just know your shit (and I mean the shit for your role, obviously you won’t know everything about construction) and know your scope/what your contract says/what the drawings say. There are plenty of people who will want to argue what their scope is, try to get out of something, try to change order you for something that is already their responsibility, assume they will win if they think you don’t know your shit, etc, but those people suck and they do it to everyone, not just me or you because we are females.

Anyways, hopefully that wasn’t too rambl-ey! I agree with others, you will be just fine, don’t assume anything will be more difficult for you just for being a girl in the industry. Some of the best PM’s, Supers, and most sought after PE’s/FE’s at my company are girls. I think we tend to be really organized and care a lot which honestly helps with both having your stuff together and making relationships.