What Measures are Eau Claire Manufacturing Companies Taking to Promote Women’s Equality?

Abstract

According to Deloitte’s 2015 Women in Manufacturing Study, “Women make up about 47 percent of the labor force, but only 27 percent of the manufacturing workforce.” Currently, this is a major issue among manufacturing plants, so I wanted to investigate what measures were being done to promote women’s equality in Eau Claire plants. Researchers concluded that some major ways to overcome barriers for women’s equality in the workplace was for businesses to implement mentoring programs, ignore the stereotype that is placed on female worker, and to change the business culture to one where women make the same amount of money as their males’ counterparts, while empowering women with more opportunities to excel. I wanted to see if the Eau Claire manufacturing companies were utilizing any of these suggested methods for handling equality or if they dealt with equality in a different manner.