In 2025, 9.6 percent of women workers and 10.4 percent of male workers were members of labor unions. Women union members earned, on average, 87.2 percent of the average wages of male union members.
For women aged 16 to 24 who were not enrolled in school and did not have a high school diploma, the unemployment rate in 2013 was 32.9 percent. In contrast, for women in this age group who had obtained a bachelor's degree, the 2013 unemployment rate was 6.5 percent.
Men are more likely than women in the United States to be members of labor unions. In 2013, women union members earned, on average, 90 percent of the average wages of male union members.
