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 1.7: Considering a Career in the Building Trades
Would you be surprised to learn that Latina women earn an average of only 60 percent of men’s wages? Use this quiz in an orientation or information session to prompt awareness about the need for women to have access to jobs in traditionally higher paid, male-dominated blue-collar careers
The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.8: Outreach and Recruitment Workplan to Attract and Engage Women Applicants
Use this tool to create a blueprint and timeline for your program’s outreach, recruitment, and assessment strategy. The template provides a single resource to document and track multiple program goals and objectives, responsible staff, activities, measurable outcomes, and time spent on each activity.
The Pink to Green Toolkit 2.1: Assessment and Case Management Strategies to Support Women’s Participation and Success in Green Jobs
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. All tools are available online at: http://greenways.jff.org/pinktogreen
