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In the United States approximately 10-16% of construction workers (1, 2, 3) are female–and groups within and oputside these industries have clealry states goals of increasing the particiation of women in skilled trades and management, and reducing obstacles for their participation in laboring roles. However, the most recent data suggests that, when newly hired, women are paid an average of 79% of the wage of a male worker. 

Perhaps they do not appear the this line up below because about half of these women participate in an administrative capacity, and that is not really “working” as compared to laboring, trades and management?  And As for how many women are employed by railways, I just couldn’t find out.  There are several associations for railroad women (1, 2, 3) but they do not state the demographic situation or any goals on relation to it.  In fact all I can find on this subject is historical, mainly in relation to the involvement of women in railroad professions during World War II.  By contrast, the interest (scholarly and popular) in womens’ contemporary involvement in the railways seems to be almost non-existent. 

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