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Nantucket Women Take Landscape Lead11-26-07 | News

Nantucket Women Take Landscape Lead




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Women on the resort island of Nantucket are taking the lead in landscaping in a big way. It may be unusual elsewhere, but female landscapers are becoming the rule on the island, the local Inquirer and Mirror newspaper reports.

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Women, she said, can be better gardeners than men.

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Mike Misurelli, the president of the Nantucket Landscape Association and co-owner of G&M Landscape Services, said that while he was in college, landscaping crews were predominantly male, but that has changed since he arrived on Nantucket.

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And it appears that the owners of landscaping companies are also taking note of the rise in all-female crews and some have even gone as far as to advertise specifically for women to work in that setting.

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Source: The (Nantucket, Mass.) Inquirer and Mirror

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