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Gale Schmidt grew up in an era when a woman’s career choices were pretty much confined to home economics or working as a secretary. She enjoyed building things and was determined to do work that she loved.
“It was the path less chosen and obstacles were everywhere. I was always looked at as incapable because I was a woman,” she said, adding it was common for her to be ignored at the hardware store or lumber yard and her proposed solutions to problems on projects were...