March 26 (Bloomberg) — Sylas DeMello got her start in construction as a child pouring the foundation and nailing boards for her family's deck with her father in Tennessee.
"It was more of a chore, but I enjoyed it," said DeMello, now an apprentice at Murray Electric in Burlington, Vermont.
She makes $18 an hour and expects $25 once she has her journeyman's license next year. Her position was "an immediate step up" from an earlier $13-an-hour job as a sous chef.
DeMello, 32, is one of more than 375,000 apprentices in the U.S., according to the Department of Labor. Just 6 percent were women in 2012, a report in December from the Washington-based Center for American Progress showed.
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