Women make up approximately 50% of the Earth’s population. No surprise there. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they held approximately 50% of jobs in the United States of America in 2019. However, women make up just 2% of Americans employed in the HVAC labor force.
Those numbers, especially the final one, show that there is a vastly untapped group of potential employees for the HVAC industry: Women. And as the labor shortage grows even more over the upcoming years as an increasing amount of Baby Boomers retire, contractors will benefit from starting recruiting and hiring women for their company right now.