Women held every automaker representative position during Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield’s tour of the showroom floor on Monday. This observation arrives as the transportation sector witnesses a shift in gender representation, though men still comprise most of the workforce.

One in four employees in the transportation sector are women, according to CADIA. Women buy 54% of cars. They influence roughly eight in ten car purchases, according to NOLO.

Donna Inch climbed from the finance department to CEO of Ford Motor Company’s real estate division across 40 years before retiring. She started at the company and worked through the ranks as an Eastern Michigan alumnus.

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