Male to female ratio in your workplace?
Out of curiosity, how many women do you have in your workplace and what industry are you in? We have 3 women working on our site of about 150 which I think is horrible. I work at a small gas refinery
Those of you that are women, do you feel discriminated against in the field? How can we improve the EHS role to be more inclusive? Outlined below is some (potentially) outdated data, but probably still representative
https://blog.dol.gov/2017/03/01/12-stats-about-working-women
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I would not say I am discriminated against. I am interrupted and talked over a lot. Which is very frustrating...let me finish speaking! At monthly ASSP calls, I am the only female out of 15.
About at 15 percent however it is severely dusty heavy work.
I can’t blame women who don’t want to work in industry. Not everywoman wakes up feeling oppressed by men and the urge to rectify a distorted “social condition” by getting a job in an industry just because “the boys” are doing it. Are they welcome? Of course! But you might find that their are many biological and social factors that are specific to the natural and social behavior of women that play into these statistics, not the projected sentiment of the He-Man Woman Haters Club from little rascals. The stats will change eventually.... at the cost of people going into jobs they hate for reasons they don’t understand and have an entire career in some random industry just because people on TV told them they should for the sake of social diversity and equality... this is the recipe for living unhappy lives, and urging things like sexual diversity in the workplace is just ushering people into it.
We are about 20 women for 120 employees. Utility industry