The Percentage of Women in the Engineering Workforce is Steadily Growing
Women’s participation in engineering and other STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields has been historically low, a reality that has been widely attributed to the influence of gender stereotyping in the educational and workforce domains. That being said, recent years have witnessed a substantial uptick in the number of women studying and working in […]
Construction Sector Employment Sees Largest Increase Since December 2008
The United States construction sector, like every industry, has seen its ups and downs, with jobs—and thus employment rates—routinely vacillating in accord with the up- and downswings of the national economy. The good news is that in the past year alone national construction employment rates have seen a 3% growth overall, while between October and […]