The infrastructure to educate and entice manufacturing workers simply doesn't exist, while the Trump administration has sought to deport the very people who would want those jobs the most.

The path toward equity hasn't been an easy one for women in supply chain and logistics, and even today, it's still very much a work in progress.

One approach is to adopt a three-tier approach to staffing, where you have both short-term hires and permanent workers, with a layer of recurring, flexible workers.