In Clean Tech, a good job can be hard to find for women.

From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Lily Jamali. Last June, President Biden flew to Silicon Valley to tout the massive federal investment

in clean energy made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act.

When I think of climate, I think of jobs.

When I think of climate, I think of innovation. When I think of innovation, when I think of

job, climate I think it turn him peril into progress.

For a long time, though, women have largely been shut out of clean tech.

An investigation by the nonprofit newsroom,

the Fuller Project, found that last year,

women filled just 32% of green energy jobs.

Senior editor Aaron Glance explained there are sometimes graphic findings.

What we heard from the frontline workers, our reporter Kate Gamine went out and talked to some of the female workers in this sector,

and she found that out on the front lines of these some of the female workers in this sector.

And she found that out on the front lines

of these construction sites, where people are putting up solar panels,

there is a lot of endemic just direct sexism, people drawing penises on on porta potty walls,

making direct sexist commentary towards their colleagues, propositioning female workers at work,

and that's a lot to get through.

A second factor is the historic pipeline issue,

if you look at the skills that are needed to install a

solar panel or a windmill at the working class level, you're looking at a

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