The Girls Auto Clinic is a full service repair facility and beauty spa. Patrice Banks was tired of being taken advantage of by mechanics, so she went to school and became a mechanic herself.

When one woman in Philadelphia was dumbfounded at the lack of women in the car mechanic industry, she decided to quit her job and start her own car shop.

Watch the video above to find out what Kring says are the challenges of working in a male-dominated industry, as well as the advice she has for young women wanting to join the auto industry.

"I couldn't find a female mechanic, so I became one." In 2011, Philadelphia native Patrice Banks had been working as an engineer for 10 years when she realized that while she may be an expert at ...

Eventually Hadley would start her own business called Pistons & Pixie Dust. She is a mobile mechanic who travels to her customers to fix their cars or teach them how to fix them.

After spending more than 12 years in the business working as a mechanic in several auto body shops in Canada, Hillary wants to make her own all female shop ...

Ndeye Coumba, who owns the auto-repair shop Femme Auto, manages 30 employees, 10 of whom are women. She also founded a group for female auto mechanics that has 200 members.

Stevie McRoberts is the only female auto technician at JoCo Auto. She’s been in the male-dominated industry for the past three years and is used to being the only the female in the shop.

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Sandra Aguebor, the only female mechanic in Nigeria, is giving back by empowering other African women to learn technical skills.

She immediately began searching for a female mechanic in the Philly area — and then in any area — but couldn't track down a single one. "That was my 'aha!' moment," 36 -year-old Banks said.