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Key Statistics FROM ENGINEERING NEWS-RECORD (ENR)

• In the Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) first-ever workplace harassment training, 66% of respondents reporting they have faced sexual harassment or gender bias in the workplace and nearly 60% saying they have witnessed it.

• In a major 2016 report, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found that while only 25% of women surveyed characterized an experience as sexual harassment, 75% had experienced behaviors that can be described as harassment, such as unwanted sexual attention and coercion, suggestive comments and derogatory language, says Romila Singh, a workforce trends expert and associate business school professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

• According to the report, 31 percent of women say that sexual harassment is a constant or frequent experience at work, and 32 percent of respondents of color report frequent racial harassment and discrimination.  Sexual orientation discrimination is even more common; 37 percent of respondents who identify as lesbian, gay, or transgender say that they frequently face discrimination or harassment based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.  One woman states flatly, “Gender discrimination is rampant, constant, and considered normal in that industry.”

INDUSTRY RESOURCES

• Engineering News-Record

• Groundbreaking Women in Construction

• Institute for Women’s Policy Research

• Oakland Construction Worker Sexual Harassment Attorney

• Sample policies:

  • Bechtel

  • Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E)

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