According to ABC News, Angie Carothers, a General Motors head subline employee, decided to begin her career at the Performance Build Center in Bowling Green, Kentucky despite her father’s advice to choose another route. She sometimes builds Camaro and boat engines among others.

During the duration of Carothers’ career, she’s been a trailblazer and leader, showing that women have a place in a car factory or any job deemed to be one for a man.

“I was the first female in the PBC to get the first perfect ten engines in a row. In 2020 and 2021, I’ve built the most engines in the whole shop. All the women, all the men, out of everybody. Even the best builder,” she said.

At General Motors’ Performance Build Center, there are less than 15% of women. “Once my mom and my sister got here I was like, ‘If they can do it, I know I can do it!'”daughter Latrice, an assembler building Cadillac Escalade T1 engines, said in the interview.

Corother’s daughters, who work at the same plant, are happy to follow in their mom’s footsteps and continue to shift the perspective of what women are capable of.

“We actually work with several men. And to be able to do the same thing that they do, and do it better, it makes me feel good,” Latrice explained.

“I thought factory work was a man’s job until I seen that my mom did it. She came in here and she actually set the standard for me and my sister,” she added.

The reward for them after completing an engine is the nameplate each product is tagged with, which includes the builder’s name to recognize their hard work.

“I take pride to put my name on it, because I know I built it from start to finish,” Latrice said.

“For somebody to actually get a Charisse Walters engine, they reach out to me like, ‘Oh, is it true you’re really a female? Did you really build it?'” Charisse said.

On top of being inspirational trendsetters, the relationship between the triad has enhanced their bonds with each other since they work at the same plate. Their dynamic shifted due to them taking their lunch breaks together every day and seeing each other on the clock.

“Being able to work together every day — we were already bonded — but it helps us hold that bond,” Charisse told ABC News.