Chart: Women are much less likely to be in the higher-wage jobs found in manufacturing and construction: Shares of employment in select industries, by gender, 2017–2020 | Economic Policy Institute

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Women are much less likely to be in the higher-wage jobs found in manufacturing and construction: Shares of employment in select industries, by gender, 2017–2020

	Women	Men
Construction	10.6%	89.4%
Manufacturing	29.2%	70.8%
Services	56.4%	43.6%

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Source: Economic Policy Institute analysis of pooled 2017–2020 Current Population Survey Extracts Outgoing Rotation Group from EPI Microdata Extracts (EPI 2021a).

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