Pub.1 2019-2020 Issue 1

T he petroleum industry is facing a problem shared by many industries. As the baby boom generation enters retirement in ever-larger numbers, many open jobs are getting harder to fill. Male-dominated industries are being forced to face an important reality. Hiring as many qualified employees as possible means you have to hire women as well as men, or too many jobs will stay empty. Only 15 percent of the workforce in the oil and gas industry currently consists of women. For the higher-paying tech- nical jobs, that percentage drops even lower, to approximately half . Yet half the world’s population consists of women. Clearly, women are under-rep- resented in an industry that has many challenging, rewarding, and high-paying jobs just waiting for the right person to fill them. How well do these jobs pay? According to researchers at Bloomberg, energy (including oil contiuned on page 18 17 UP DATE