Punching In: Trades Double Down on Getting Women on Board (1)

Monday morning musings for workplace watchers.

Women Workers Outreach | EEOC Chairs in Flux

Rebecca Rainey: The Biden administration’s recent call for members of the construction trades to partner with community organizations and offer benefits like child care to attract more women and marginalized communities to the industry is old news to employer and labor groups. Those stakeholders have been working to expand diversity in the field for years, they say, and have been redoubling their efforts in recent months with more than $800 million in training dollars available under the bipartisan infrastructure law.

“We’re really focusing on child care ...