Sentences with phrase «few women in the workforce»

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Women have spent fewer years in the workforce.

The report found that where there is greater workforce participation by women, including in their own businesses, there is also greater economic resilience, and fewer economic slowdowns.

A recent report from S&P Global argued that promoting the entry and retention of more women in the workforce in the U.S., particularly in STEM fields, could create a «substantial growth opportunity,» with the potential to add 5 % to 10 % to nominal GDP in a just few decades.

Women — who make up more than half the teaching workforce in middle and high schools — hold fewer than 15 % of all undergraduate engineering degrees [iv] and are choosing STEM majors and careers in decreasing numbers [v].

There are a number of reasons that this disparity exists, among these are that, on average, women earn lower salaries than their male counterparts and will spend fewer years in the workforce.