A Pilot Investigation of Construction Workforce and Education Inequalities and Biases in Construction/Civil/Architectural Engineering

建筑/土木/建筑工程领域建筑劳动力和教育不平等和偏见的试点调查

• 批准号: 1733644
• 负责人: Jin Ouk Choi
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Nevada Las Vegas
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1733644&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Pilot; Investigation; Construction; Workforce; Education

The construction industry is one of the largest job providers in the U.S. and plays a major role in producing well-paying, middle class, high-quality jobs. Thus, many communities of color are underrepresented in the construction labor force. According to a recent dataset from the U.S. Census Bureau (2014), male workers in the construction sector, on average, comprise 16% more than their female counterparts, and white workers, on average, comprise almost 24% more than their black or African American counterparts. The challenges in the construction workforce are many, and the solutions are complex. Increasing racial and gender diversity in engineering is an imperative for the National Science Foundation and a priority driven by the changing demographics and need for high-quality engineering workforce, including in the construction industry. Using multiple data collection methods, the investigators propose to obtain initial data studying inequalities and biases in construction/civil/architectural engineering. More specifically, the investigators aim to study the current inequality situation within the construction workforce by race/ethnicity and gender, along with the spatial distribution of wage gaps among U.S. metros/trades by utilizing nationwide data sources and structural inequalities and biases within the national educational system as they relate to AEC by surveying high school students about their perceptions/ interests/ images/understanding on the AEC industry. In particular, this study will focus on African American, Hispanic, and women. The timing of this study is optimal because it possesses great promise in addressing an imminent labor shortage issue while helping the construction industry recruit a more diversified labor workforce.

建筑业是美国最大的就业提供者之一，在创造高薪、中产阶级、高质量的就业岗位方面发挥着重要作用。因此，许多有色人种社区在建筑劳动力中的代表性不足。根据美国人口普查局（2014年）最近的数据集，建筑业的男性工人平均比女性工人多16%，而白色工人平均比黑人或非洲裔美国人多近24%。建筑工人面临的挑战很多，解决方案也很复杂。增加工程中的种族和性别多样性是国家科学基金会的当务之急，也是不断变化的人口结构和对高质量工程劳动力（包括建筑业）需求的优先事项。使用多种数据收集方法，研究人员建议获得初步数据，研究建筑/土木/建筑工程中的不平等和偏见。更具体地说，调查人员的目标是研究建筑工人中目前的不平等状况，按种族/民族和性别，沿着美国大都市/行业之间工资差距的空间分布，通过利用全国性的数据来源和国家教育系统内的结构性不平等和偏见，因为它们与AEC有关，通过调查高中学生的看法/兴趣/形象/了解AEC行业。特别是，这项研究将集中在非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔和妇女。这项研究的时机是最佳的，因为它在解决迫在眉睫的劳动力短缺问题方面具有很大的潜力，同时帮助建筑业招募更多样化的劳动力。

项目成果

Spatial Analysis of the Gender Wage Gap in Architecture, Civil Engineering, and Construction Occupations in the United States

美国建筑、土木工程和施工职业性别工资差距的空间分析

• DOI: 10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000780
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Management in Engineering
• 影响因子: 7.4
• 作者: Manesh, Saba Nikkhah;Choi, Jin Ouk;Shrestha, Binit Kumar;Lim, Jaewon;Shrestha, Pramen P.
• 通讯作者: Shrestha, Pramen P.

Employment and Wage Distribution Investigation in the Construction Industry by Gender

建筑业按性别划分的就业及工资分布调查

• DOI: 10.1061/(asce)me.1943-5479.0000778
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Journal of Management in Engineering
• 影响因子: 7.4
• 作者: Shrestha, Binit K.;Choi, Jin Ouk;Shrestha, Pramen P.;Lim, Jaewon;Nikkhah Manesh, Saba
• 通讯作者: Nikkhah Manesh, Saba

Critical Literature Review on the Diversity and Inclusion of Women and Ethnic Minorities in Construction and Civil Engineering Industry and Education

关于建筑和土木工程行业和教育中妇女和少数民族的多样性和包容性的批判性文献综述

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Construction Research congress 2020
• 作者: NikkhahManesh, S.;Choi, J.;Shrestha, P.
• 通讯作者: Shrestha, P.

An Investigation of Construction Workforce Inequalities and Biases in the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry

建筑、工程和施工 (AEC) 行业建筑劳动力不平等和偏见的调查

• DOI: 10.1061/9780784481301.007
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Construction Research Congress 2018: Sustainable Design and Construction and Education
• 作者: Choi, Jin Ouk;Shrestha, Pramen P.;Lim, Jaewon;Shrestha, Binit K.
• 通讯作者: Shrestha, Binit K.