Trends in Employment and Earnings
Women’s status in the area of employment and earnings has improved on two indicators since the publication of IWPR’s last national report on the status of women, the 2004 Status of Women in the States, and remained unchanged or declined on two others. Women’s median annual earnings for full-time, year-round work in 2013 ($39,157) were nearly identical to their earnings for similar work in 2002 ($39,108 when adjusted to 2013 dollars). The gender earnings ratio improved during this time from 76.6 to 78.3 percent, narrowing the gender wage gap by 1.7 percentage points, and the share of women working in professional or managerial occupations grew from 33.2 to 39.9 percent. Women’s labor force participation rate, however, declined from 59.6 in 2002 to 57.0 percent in 2014.
The Pink to Green Toolkit 4.1: Overview Presentation – Putting a Gender Lens on Training Curricula and Teaching
This tool is part of The Pink to Green Toolkit: Adding a Gender Lens to Green Jobs Training Programs, created by Wider Opportunities for Women for the GreenWays initiative.
The Pink to Green Toolkit 4.2: Curriculum Module – Building Cultural Competency and Respect for Diversity
The historical and social roots of the underrepresentation of women and minorities in the building trades create unique challenges to building a diverse construction workforce and equitable worksites. Supporting workers from under-utilized groups and ensuring a productive, cooperative workplace requires enhancing what is referred to as the “cultural competency” of all workers—that is, their skills in understanding and incorporating into their own lives the particular backgrounds of the diverse people with whom they work.
The Pink to Green Toolkit 4.3: Gender Equity Quiz
The Pink to Green Toolkit 4.3: Gender Equity Quiz
