Even though women accounted for 47 percent of total employment in the United States in 2014, some industries still have significant gender gaps. Male dominance in Silicon Valley  is well known, but surely the American transportation sector ranks as one of the country’s worst offenders when it comes to the underrepresentation of women.
According to a new report, women are a rare sight across most transportation branches in the United States. In 2014, 8 out of every 10 workers in the industry as a whole were men. Broken down further, rail and highway transportation have the highest gaps by far with just 10 and 11 percent of workers respectively being female. Even though air transportation and transit have higher shares of female employees, they still rank considerably lower than the national average.
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80% of Workers In The US Transportation Sector Are Male