• In 2023, women comprised 84.7 percent of apprentices in the Health and Social Services industry (median hourly exit wage of $20.67 for women and $20.02 for men) but just 4.5 percent of apprentices in the Construction industry (median exit wage of $34.00 for women and $34.25 for men). [...] (A more detailed methodological note appears at the end of the report.) Because of the substantial role of construction trade apprenticeships for infrastructure and clean energy investments, the report pays particular attention to trends in gender and racial equity in that sector, including among electrical apprenticeships, the occupation with the largest number of apprentices. [...] The Distribution of Women and Men Apprentices Across Industry, 2023 Women Men Rank by Women’s apprentices apprentices number Women share of in sector in sector of Industry apprentices apprentices as share of as share women (#) in sector (%) all women of all men apprentices apprentices (%) (%) 1 Public Administration, including 36,173 22.2% 38.2% 24.1% Military (not covered in the economic census). [...] During the same period, the share of women active apprentices in the Construction industry fell from 14.3 to 10.3 percent.35 In the future, Health Care and Social Assistance and Educational Services apprenticeships may increase the number of women holding more male- dominated and highly paid occupations in those sectors. [...] The period under review covers the COVID-19 pandemic, yet the highest numbers of cancellations for both women and men occurred in the first and second years of the apprenticeships, before the pandemic started.51 Among the 2016 cohort, women in union-affiliated electrician programs were substantially more likely to complete an apprenticeship than those in non-union programs.
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