Section 3 Key Findings
The key findings from the survey are included here and organized into the following sections: work status, workplace satisfaction, home life, and community perceptions.
3.1 Work Status
- Most women were employed full-time by one employer, but women’s work status varied by the size of their employer, wage income, and race / ethnicity and wage income together.
- The majority of women responding to the survey made less than $100,000 a year, which varied by the size of their employer and race / ethnicity.
- About half of women reported receiving a job promotion within the past few years, varying by the size of their employer, age / generation, race / ethnicity, wage income, and race / ethnicity and wage income together.
- The breakdown of leadership roles held by men, as reported by respondents, varied by the size of their employer, wage income, and race / ethnicity and wage income together.
3.2 Workplace Satisfaction
- Analysts found the most consistent differences across demographic groups in how women rated their satisfaction with advancement opportunities, paid time off, flexible working opportunities, and continuing education opportunities.
- When rating different aspects of satisfaction with their employers’ commitment to workplace equity, women’s responses varied by all the disaggregations examined except age / generation for commitment to gender equity, handling of workplace complaints, and hiring and advancement policies.
- Gender discrimination showed the highest variation in how various groups of women reported experiencing or witnessing it at work, among all the assessed forms of discrimination.
3.3 Home Life
- Analysts found differences in the amount of time taken off of work for childbirth, adoption, childcare, and / or eldercare by race / ethnicity, wage income, and race / ethnicity and wage income together.
- Analysts determine a statistically significant relationship between being reprimanded, penalized, or terminated from a job because of the demands of their family responsibilities and their wage income.