"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 ...

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CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman reports on a female auto mechanic whose drive is to teach and empower women about cars. Aside from a thin coat of powder, there's nothing superficial about 32-year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "I was interested in female empowerment," Banks said over the phone in March. "I had my own house, my own car. My girlfriends were ...

Patrice Banks is now a mechanic, and the owner of a successful auto clinic, but there was a time when she avoided taking her own car in for routine maintenance. “I was afraid I was going to be taken ...

"I was interested in female empowerment," Banks said over the phone in March. "I had my own house, my own car. My girlfriends were the same: They were very independent, but still we didn't know how to ...