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WOMEN

IN CONSTRUCTION

omen remain underrepresented in the Hundreds of construction jobs can be categorized
construction industry, although they into five broad groups, according to the Labor
Wcurrently make up almost half (47 percent) Statistics from the Current Population Survey. Sales
of the total working population. The share of women and office occupations employed the largest number
employed in construction has stayed relatively of women within the construction industry. Women
constant, around 9 percent since 2002. Women accounted for 73 percent of workers in sales and office
play a number of roles in the construction industry, occupations, including 421,000 women in office and
such as administrative, professional, managerial, administrative supportive occupations, and 21,000
construction, and production occupations. We in sales and related occupations in 2017. More than
explore the state of women in the construction 300,000 women were engaged in management,
industry using the labor force statistics from the professional, and related occupations. While
Current Population Survey (CPS). natural resources, construction, and maintenance
The number of women employed in the occupations employed the largest number of
construction industry grew steadily, from 970,000 employees, women comprised only 3 percent of
in 2002 to 1.1 million in 2007. However, there was a workers in these occupations. Other groups such as
sharp decline of female workers in construction production, transportation, and material moving
from 2007 to 2010, when around 2.7 million total occupations, and service occupations employed only
construction jobs were lost after the collapse of the around 10,000 female workers.
housing market. During that period, the number of
female construction workers declined by almost 30
percent to 807,000 in 2010. After the Great Recession,
female construction employment slowly picked up
to around 970,000 in 2017, but is still below the pre-
recession level.

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THE

DATE PRESENTED BY: As the shortage of labor for the construction

industry remains a key issue, adding new workers
FEB 22-24 The Alamodome shows that bringing additional women into the
is an important goal of the industry. This data

construction labor force represents a potential
It is also important to take a look at where opportunity for the future. NAHB SEPTEMBER 2018
women are working within the construction industry.
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