As a young girl in her native Puerto Rico, Limary Montijo would trail her grandfather as he went on carpentry projects. She might not have known it at the time, but she was building on her future.
More than 20 years and an arduous apprenticeship later, Ms. Montijo earned a more formal entry into the construction trade. She did so through a program administered by Nontraditional Employment for Women, a city-based not-for-profit that partners with major trade unions to provide training for 350 to 400 women each year and then assists alumnae in securing unionized jobs in construction, transportation, energy and other trades and fields.
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