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[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

The average percentage of women in aerospace is ~13.4%

SpaceX has 14.1% female.

NASA has 35.5% women.

Boeing has 24.1% women.

Virgin Galactic has 25% women.

Blue Origin has 20% women.

Lockheed has 32% female.

Grumman has 24.5% female.

Raytheon has 29% female.

Maybe women in aerospace just don't want to work for Musk?

[-] Morphit@feddit.uk 5 points 9 months ago

Where are those numbers from? I don't doubt them but it seems a bit weird that even the lowest outlier of these big aerospace companies is still above average for the industry. I guess this is just saying that smaller companies have even more difficulty hiring/retaining female workforce.

[-] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Self reporting as part of diversity quota. Most of them have female hire goals of around 30-35%. USBLS provided the average across aerospace.

What is curious is how some gave a "female" statistic, but others said "women".

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
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