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The Women in Leadership Foundation (WIL) conducted an 11-month study in 2007 called the WIL BC Up-link Women in Construction Trades Project to examine the barriers women face in the construction trades industry and to gather recommendations to attract and retain women into the industry by engaging industry stakeholders in dialogue. WIL gathered information from 124 project participants through one-on-one meetings, roundtables, focus groups, conferences, and surveys to obtain a current picture of what the barriers and challenges are and to discover how to promote successful careers for women in the construction trades industry in British Columbia. With unprecedented activity in the construction industry combined with the current and future labour shortage the importance of addressing these challenges to successfully attract, recruit and retain women in the construction industry is now critical. Despite the demographic changes, labour shortages and an economic boom in British Columbia women are currently an under utilized resource in the construction industry. The representation of women as a proportion of all those employed in construction has grown little since the late 1980s. The percentage of all women employed in this group has remained between 2% and 3% since 1978. The expectation of this Plan is to highlight the success of women in the construction trades and to move forward towards a better balance of women and men working in the construction industry.