Women Snag Big Chunk Of New Oil Jobs

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Women snagged nearly half of oil and gas jobs last quarter.
Women snagged nearly half of oil and gas jobs last quarter.

By Steve Hargreaves

There are few fields that scream "burly man job" more than oil and gas work.

Yet in the first quarter of this year, nearly half (46%) of all new jobs in the oil industry went to women, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data compiled by the industry research and news service Rigzone.

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