Women in ASHRAE, By the Numbers

The Women in ASHRAE affinity group is a small but vocal group and they are starting a movement to encourage the retention of women in the built environment. This presentation will analyze ASHRAE membership data and examine the percentage of women involved in standing committees, technical committees, and ASHRAE as a whole with feedback from a survey of ASHRAE’s female members. Then presentation will take the analysis a step further and compare ASHRAE’s female membership to the female membership in other partner organizations. Conclusions will be drawn about how to increase female participation numbers and benefits of encouraging this movement.