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Four years ago Women on Site was four women who felt alone at work and started talking about it. Last month we were standing inside the Hearn Generating Station shooting for Carhartt. If you had told us back then that Carhartt would send us a hat, we would have lost our minds. A hat. That would have been the whole story. It started the day before. A room in Toronto, a rack of new women's workwear, and a team waiting to fit us. Rylie, Constanza, Tessa and Samara, trying on pan

Building safer spaces for girls requires intention, collaboration, and care 💜 From June 25–27, Women On Site was proud to host 3 activities for Sheridan College at Camp Ak-O-Mak during the Women in Trades camp. Over the course of the weekend, the focus went beyond hands-on learning, it was about coming together to help foster a sense of community, take time for reflection and to set intentions for the future. At Camp Ak-O-Mak, participants contributed their skills to support

By: Women on Site —— I asked myself that question on the back of a bus. A work trip. A ball game. Me and my union brothers, all of us headed to the same place. I was on the inside by every measure, same union card, same trade, same bus. But somewhere between the jokes that were spun about gender, the side glances and the way they seemed to laugh with each other but at me. Not directly, but in the way you know, you know this is being said because of you. I started to shrink. I

The conversation around equity in construction isn’t slowing down—it’s getting sharper, more practical, and more necessary. That energy was on full display at the recent Women in Construction Breakfast 2026 event hosted by Annex Media, held on April 9 at the Sandman Hotel in Mississauga. Bringing together professionals from across the trades, the sixth annual event created space for meaningful discussion on three pressing issues: institutional progress and advocacy, properly

By: Samara Sampson, Co-Founder & Director of Communications at Women On Site On October 28, 2025, Women on Site partnered with CIBC to host Her Trade, Her Power, a networking and panel event on the 49th floor of CIBC Square in Toronto. For WOS, this collaboration marked a real step forward in how our work is recognized and supported. The room filled quickly with familiar faces from our community alongside people we were meeting for the first time. Everyone showed up polished