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Women in water sector workforce

World Bank Report (2019): "Women in Water Utilities. Breaking Barriers"

Women are an untapped pool of talent for the water sector. Data collected for this study from 64 water and sanitation service providers in 28 economies around the world show that the percentage of female workers is considerably lower than that of men: on average, utilities in the sample reported that only 18 percent of their workers are women—that’s fewer than one in five. Wide heterogeneity was found among the utilities surveyed. For example, although, on average, 23 percent of engineers and managers in a utility are female, 32 percent of the sampled utilities had no female engineers and 12 percent had no female managers. Read report here
 

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