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Portera: ''on a level playing field for the first time ever''. (Construction Mississippi).

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 28-APR-03
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Portera: ''on a level playing field for the first time ever''. (Construction Mississippi).(women in civil engineering )

Article Excerpt
JACKSON -- Females in civil engineering used to be unheard of in the South.

But Joy F. Portera changed all that, when she came to the Mississippi Department of Transportation in 1979.

It wasn't a lifelong dream of Portera's to become a civil engineer. In fact, she admits, she didn't even know what an engineer was when she went to college.

"Math and science was a strong suit for me but I didn't want to go into the medical field," Portera said.

She opted to go into engineering after her guidance counselor at the then Northwest Junior College (now Northwest...

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