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Francis Scott
Key Bridge
Share of construction
employees who are women
More than 1 in 8 Maryland construction
workers is a woman, the seventh-highest rate
among the 50 states.
About 13.6% of Maryland's 234,000 construction employees are women. Maryland's rate is
almost 3 points above the national average
and higher than 43 other states'. At 24.1%,
Washington, D.C., is the national leader.
Women’s representation in key buildingand transportation-related industries has
changed little in two decades.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’
Current Population Survey, about 1 in 10
U.S. construction workers, including
managers, is a woman. About 1 in 4 workers
in transportation and warehousing or
architecture, engineering and related
services is a woman. By far the largest
industry of the three, construction employs
2.1 million women, transportation/warehousing 1.3 million and architecture/engineering/related services about half a
million.
Share of U.S. workers
who are women, by sector
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics/Geographic Profile of
Employment and Unemployment, 2023
Occupations in Maryland women are “crowded out of”
In Maryland, women are especially underrepresented in industries including truck drivers, engineers
and material movers, a state analysis found.
Three occupations related to logistics or building were among five that the Maryland Department of
Labor found employed less than half of the number of women that would be expected based on
education levels, as expressed by a measure called crowding index.
Data includes
managers
Source: Bureau of
Labor
Statistics/Current
Population Survey
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