In Season 6 of What Does It Profit?, Dr. Dawn Carpenter explores dignity at work by stepping inside industries where women are still underestimated and often unwelcome.

In this episode, we meet Aine O'Dwyer, a civil engineer and the CEO of Enovate Engineering. Raised on a dairy farm in Ireland, Aine learned early the value of discipline, perseverance, and hard work. Those lessons carried her across the Atlantic to the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where she pursued civil engineering while playing college basketball.

Engineering classrooms were still overwhelmingly male, but Aine was undeterred. She built a career from the ground up, beginning as a field engineer and eventually leading major infrastructure projects across the New York region.

Today, her firm helps design and manage the construction of bridges and other critical structures. For Aine, the work is more than technical. Every bridge represents a system carefully designed to endure.

But the bridges she builds are not only made of steel and concrete. They are also bridges of confidence and opportunity for the next generation of women entering engineering.

Aine's story reminds us that economic life is not just about what we build, but about who gets to build it. Because the structures that shape our world are not only physical, they are moral as well.

And every one of them raises the same question: What does it profit?

In Season 6 of What Does It Profit?, Dr. Dawn Carpenter goes inside industries where women are still underestimated and often unwelcome to explore how they are reshaping the meaning and structure of work.

In this episode, we meet Judaline Cassidy, a master plumber, union leader, and founder of Tools & Tiaras, a nonprofit that introduces girls to welding, carpentry, plumbing, and the power of the skilled trades.

Judaline was one of the only women in her plumbing program in Trinidad. She later broke barriers within New York's unions. Along the way, she developed a simple conviction that guides her work today: Jobs do not have genders.

With every pipe she fits and every workshop she leads, Judaline is doing more than repairing infrastructure. She is challenging assumptions about who belongs in the trades and who gets to build the future.

Through Tools & Tiaras, she is creating pathways for girls to see technical skill as strength, economic independence as attainable, and the trades as dignified, essential work.

This episode explores what happens when women claim space in skilled labor and how expanding access strengthens the entire economy.

Because when more people are invited to build, we all benefit from what gets built.

Less than 10% of truck drivers are women.

The open road has long been seen as a man's world. But that is changing.

In 2012, Jess Graham left an abusive relationship and enrolled in CDL training within days. Weeks later, she was licensed and on the road with her ten-year-old daughter, living together in the cab of a truck.

For Jess, trucking was not just a job. It was a path to stability, speed, and self-determination. Every mile out there is different from your last mile. That's a new opportunity.

In 2019, she bought her own truck, a 1995 Freightliner known as the Black Widow. Ownership shifted the journey from survival to entrepreneurship.

This episode explores trucking as an economic ladder, a lifestyle, and a test of endurance. It asks what it profits us when women claim space in industries that keep the economy moving.

Because sometimes the road is not just about freight. It is about freedom.