Rising Sun is honored to partner with the Rosie the Riveter Trust; Tradeswomen, Inc.; the West Oakland Job Resource Center; and others to organize the Rosie the Riveter Annual Certification Awards for gender equity in construction.
There are just two major industries where there are now more women on payroll than there were before the COVID-19 pandemic, Construction and Utilities. Last month, in August 2021, IWPR’s analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistic shows that there were 1.026 million women on employer payrolls in the construction industry, 30,000 more than in February 2020; men’s jobs declined slightly over the same period, from 6.65 million to 6.39 million. Women’s jobs in Utilities grew by 1,300.