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Powering the Future Starts with HER

Women are Essential to the Energy Industry

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The U.S. energy sector is evolving, and women are key to its success.

Here’s Why.

Energy is undergoing one of the most significant workforce transitions in history. Over the next decade, energy employers will need to attract and prepare millions of people to power growing energy demands, infrastructure upgrades, and the energy evolution before us. Quite simply, without more women working in the sector, the industry will experience a critical talent deficit.

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to ensure a dream-team workforce to engineer, build, operate, troubleshoot, and innovate the country’s energy ecosystem. That means construction, manufacturing, power generation and transmission, and all the other disciplines that make the country tick. With women comprising only 25% of the industry’s workforce there’s a significant void of talent and expertise missing from energy companies eager to attract top-tier talent.

Did you know?

  • Energy careers offer not just strong salaries and benefits, but a clear path to leadership, impact, and economic freedom. Simply put, those are wins for pay, power, and purpose.
  • While there’s a broad-based need for talent, the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects several industry roles will have higher than average growth rates including solar photovoltaic installers, wind turbine technicians, petroleum engineers and technologists.
  • There is a particularly huge demand with energy employers for technical thinkers and solutioneers in the skilled trades, especially electricians, welders, plumbers and pipefitters, and other technicians. Publicly available and free training makes these roles easy to access.
  • Not only are skilled trade roles in high demand but energy employers also need people for business roles – like real estate, IT, cyber, marketing, meteorology, finance, and a host of other roles that businesses.

Want to dig a little deeper? Learn more about why the energy industry is game-changing for women.

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Women Bring Skills to the Skilled Trades

You don’t need a traditional construction or electrical background to succeed in skilled trades. Many women already have the skills it takes to get started, and the energy industry needs you to build, maintain, and power a more sustainable future. Compare your skills and how they fit in the skilled trades.

Meet the Hire PowHER Community

Hire PowHER and PowHER Hour, part of the Get Into Energy network, are two new programs designed to introduce women to energy careers and connect them with next step actions and a knowledgeable community, especially for technical and skilled trade roles.

Join us for a PowHER Hour–informative, no-commitment information sessions led by women who have found their passion building, operating, maintaining, and doing it in lucrative energy careers. Kick the tires. Ask questions. Find community. All are welcome regardless of gender. Learn more and register for PowHER Hours here.

Debunking the Myths

about Women in Energy Trades

While women are underrepresented throughout the industry, they are particularly absent from skilled labor roles, and unions and employers are eager to change that. Organizations and programs like Tradeswomen Build Nations, Women in the Trades, She Built This Nation, and a whole host of regional tradeswomen groups provide communities for women working in industry trade and extend hands of opportunity for those who haven’t considered these roles or don’t know how to get started. Some of that work starts with separating fact from fiction. Learn more about debunking the myths about women in energy trades.

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