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 3.9: Interviewing Rating Sheet
Use this tool to provide feedback to training participants on their interviewing skills. If training instructors and job developers are using this tool with industry and apprenticeship program staff who have volunteered to conduct mock interviews, they should provide each interviewer with multiple copies of this tool and give a short overview of how best to complete the sheet.
The Pink to Green Toolkit 3.10: Interviewing for the Construction Industry – Preparing Women to be Competitive Candidates
Occupational training participants can use this tool to prepare themselves for interviews.
The Pink to Green Toolkit 1.1: Adding a Gender Lens to Green Jobs Training Programs
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.
