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    1. Management

    Better Balance, Better World: Showcasing women who work in nontraditional roles at BART for International Women's Day

    March 8, 2019
    Julia Quittman's grandmother told her as a little girl that her brain was just as good as her five older brothers' and she should choose any career that made her happy.
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    The theme for 2019’s International Women's Day is “Better the Balance, Better the World” – a message that BART has taken to heart by encouraging better balance in the traditionally male-dominated field of public transportation.
    The theme for 2019’s International Women's Day is “Better the Balance, Better the World” – a message that BART has taken to heart by encouraging better balance in the traditionally male-dominated field of public transportation.

    Julia Quittman's grandmother told her as a little girl that her brain was just as good as her five older brothers' and she should choose any career that made her happy: Now she's a Senior Computer Systems Engineer keeping BART’s systems running.

    Maansii Chirag Sheth's parents supported her decision to leave India as a young woman for the United States to pursue higher education and an electrical engineering career. Now she’s a Project Manager for cathodic protection, battling corrosion wherever metal meets water.

    Van Nguyen loved math and science since childhood and considered medical school, but decided to get an engineering degree in four years and start working sooner. Now she’s a Senior Engineer working on the Transbay Tube earthquake retrofit.

    They are just three of the women at BART in nontraditional roles whose work we are highlighting for International Women's Day March 8. For more than a century, International Women’s Day has been observed each year to celebrate the achievements of women and to call for greater gender equity around the world, across a variety of organizations and industries.

    The theme for 2019’s International Women's Day is “Better the Balance, Better the World” – a message that BART has taken to heart by encouraging better balance in the traditionally male-dominated field of public transportation, particularly in technical areas like engineering.  BART is also hiring for dozens of jobs in engineering, project and program management, skilled trades and other fields.