Seeing a Clear Path to Bring More Women Into Construction
A How-to Guide for Recruiting Women to Construction Careers
From a competitive salary to a rewarding career, women represent untapped potential to help fill the labor shortage .
The share of women working in construction trades in 2018 was the highest in twenty years, but women remain strongly underrepresented in the trades: fewer than one in twenty (3.4%) of construction trades workers in 2018 were women.
Clear A Path to Bring More Women Into Construction
Women represent almost half the total U.S. workforce but only a small fraction of the construction workforce. This needs to change if the industry is to fill the skills gap and address the labor shortage.
Women Are the Solution to the Construction Industry’s Labor Shortage
But getting them into the field will require overcoming significant obstacles.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that women in the construction industry earn 97 cents for every dollar a man earns, compared to the US average of 80 cents.
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