According to the National Association of Home Builders, the share of women working in construction has risen to a 20-year high.
Recent data puts women’s share of the workforce at 11.3%. From 2024 to 2025, an estimated 31,000 women joined the industry, adding to the 1.37 million total.
NAHB reports that this is a wide comeback for women’s participation since the Great Recession. From 2007 to 2010, an estimated 300,000 women left the industry workforce.
This increase is largely attributed to more white-collar positions in the industry, such as administrative support, where women make up 78% of those positions.
Women are still less likely to be working on job sites.
“Women comprised only 4% of workers in construction and extraction occupations, 3% in installation, maintenance and repair occupations and 6% in production occupations,” said Na Zhao, Ph.D., a principal economist at NAHB. “Increasing women’s participation in these occupations could help expand the pool of skilled workers available to the construction industry.”
