The US needs 1m more electricians to hit climate goals. Can it recruit more women?

Alicia Miksic, an apprentice electrician, works with electrician Adam DeFilippo at a work site at the Brigham and Women's hospital emergency department in Boston. Photograph: Boston Globe/Getty Images

As a child, Cora Saxton liked to make things – forts, whittled wood carvings, a flying saucer even – so when she became an electrician at 49, it felt like a perfect fit.

“I like the puzzle-solving and being able to look back at the end of the day and see the physical result of your hard work,” she said.