QUICK FIGURE Quick Figure #109 March 2024 Numbers Matter: Women Working in Construction In 2023, the number of women working in the trades reached the highest level ever, with 363,651 working in construction and extraction occupations. [...] In three of the five largest trades, their share of jobs is even smaller, just 3.1 percent of carpenters, 2.9 percent of electricians, and just 2.2 percent of plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters (Table 1). [...] In the last five years, the number of women construction managers grew by 55 percent, the number of women construction trade workers by half as much at 28.3 percent. [...] Women of all racial and ethnic backgrounds are underrepresented in these occupations.1 Too many women, particularly women of color, face discrimination in hiring and employment and experience sexual harassment and gender or racial bias on the job.2,3 Women are less likely to be retained on core crews, promoted to field leadership positions, or to receive the same on-the-job technical training as m. [...] IWPR and National Center for Women’s Equity in Apprenticeship and Employment at Chicago Women in the Trades.
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