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The podcast and community for women in the skilled trades, automotive and motorsports. We smash stereotypes and break down barriers, together.

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What is Femcanic Garage?

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Femcanic Garage is a community of like-minded women in the skilled trades, automotive and motorsports industries. We share our accomplishments, careers and dreams so we can lift each other toward our highest potential.

"Leveling the playing field."

Together we smash stereotypes, break barriers for women in the industry, and help the world see us as the leaders we are. Femcanic Garage is more than a podcast. It's a lifestyle. Are you a Femcanic?

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<2%of automotive, skilled trades and motorsports workers are women
100+podcast episodes with women in the industry
#26on Feedspot's Top Women Empowerment Podcasts
Forbesfeatured the podcast's launch in Podcast Magazine
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Jayme B.
Cartoon of a black 1967 Pontiac GTO convertible Polaroid photos of Jayme's project cars and engine rebuilds
The first Femcanic

Meet Jayme B.

"My interest and passion for cars started when I was about six years old with my mom's restoration project. She had a 1973 Pontiac GTO that still lives in her garage. My step dad rebuilt the engine and my job was to clean parts in a gasoline-filled porcelain bin while he worked."

"I still think pink clothing looks better stained with grease."

At 19 she bought a 1967 Pontiac GTO convertible from a man in Texas. She and her step dad drove down from Ohio in an old Dodge truck with no AC and vinyl seats. Over four years they turned that rust bucket full of dry grass into a full frame-off restoration. It was her first apprenticeship in classic car restoration.

  1. Age 6Cleaning parts beside her step dad while he rebuilt the engine in Mom's 1973 Pontiac GTO.
  2. Swap meetsRiding a tractor tire in the box van and beating grown men at drag-tree reaction contests.
  3. Age 19Bought her first project car, a 1967 GTO convertible pulled out of an empty field in Texas.
  4. 4 yearsA frame-off restoration, with a 455 swapped in for more power and speed.
  5. 2019Launched the Femcanic Garage podcast.

Get in the driver's seat

Real conversations with women who excel in mostly male automotive workplaces or run their own businesses. Hosted by Jayme Blasiman.

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Femcanic Trailblazers

The history makers, rule breakers and women who paved the road.

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4World Rally Championship wins

Michèle Mouton: the rallying trailblazer

Her rival Walter Röhrl said he wouldn't accept losing the championship to her "because she is a woman." She won four WRC rallies anyway, plus hundreds of stage wins and record times at Pikes Peak.

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She faced doubt from male rivals, questions about her driving, personal challenges and car and sponsorship problems. She kept going. She began as a co-driver in her early 20s, and it was her father who pushed her into the driver's seat. If she wanted to keep rallying, he told her, she'd need to drive. She has since served in many ambassador roles in racing.

Full story on Jalopnik
Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It!" poster
65%of the WWII aviation workforce

Rosie, the Riveter

During WWII, women kept the country running as welders, riveters and engine builders. They were still paid far less than the men.

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The famous "We Can Do It!" poster was only displayed for two weeks during the war, and few Americans saw it at the time. Rosalind P. Walter, who drilled rivets into Corsair fighter planes on the night shift in Connecticut, inspired the 1942 song "Rosie the Riveter." These women were also early pioneers in the fight for equal pay.

Full story on History.com
Graphic about the gender pay gap for women in the trades
79¢earned by U.S. women for every dollar a man makes

The gender pay gap

Fewer than 2% of automotive, skilled trades and motorsports workers are women. For the few who make it in, chances to out-earn men are rare. That may be about to change.

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The gap is wider for women of color and for mothers. The industry is also overlooking women as customers. Women are responding by creating their own spaces to work, learn and spend money, and those spaces stand to close the gap in the trades and in the workforce as a whole.

Are you a Femcanic?

More than a podcast. It's a lifestyle.

Fem-gear, Fem-power and Femcani-tude. Rep the garage with stickers, magnets and garage goods made by women, for women.

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Resources

Women-owned business directory

Want to find and support women in the industry? Hiring and looking for real talent? Browse these women-owned and women-led businesses in automotive, the skilled trades and motorsports.

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As seen in

  • Forbes
  • Podcast
    Magazine
  • Auto Body News
  • Feedspot
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"She saved all her money and bought a GTO… an emotionally perfect story loaded with details that encapsulate the 'can do' attitude of the host."

Joshua Dudley, Forbes on the Femcanic Garage feature in Podcast Magazine's inaugural issue

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#26

Feedspot ranked Femcanic Garage among the top 35 women empowerment podcasts to follow.

Podcast Magazine Beyond the Microphone graphic featuring Femcanic Garage

Podcast Magazine featured the show in its first issue: "Podcasting a life-long love affair with cars."

Get involved

Your story counts

Femcanic Garage exists for you and because of you. No story is too small. If you're a woman, teen or young girl in automotive, the skilled trades or motorsports, we want to hear from you.

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Work order#001

Be a podcast guest

Job
Share your journey, your wins and the barriers you've broken on the Femcanic Garage podcast.
Time
About an hour on the mic
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Work order#002

Volunteer or intern

Job
Help grow the garage with social media, events, writing, design and more.
Time
Flexible, you pick the hours
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Work order#003

Promote yourself

Job
Add yourself or your business to the growing list of women on the Femcanic resource page.
Cost
Free. Always.
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Sorry, guys. Femcanic Garage is by women, for women. Feel free to refer your daughter, sister, mother or a female colleague. HER story counts too.

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