Comment:

Those values which exceed 10% and, therefore, represent more than 10% of the population of women workers have been underlined. Note that under-educated women (less than grade 9) are mainly in services and the processing occupations; that women with some high school education are in clerical, sales and service occupations; that women with more complete secondary educations are in clerical and the health related occupations; that the same is true of women with vocational course completion; and that university women are in clerical, health related and teaching occupations.

Note particularly that an advanced education does not necessarily get a woman out of a clerical occupation. Note that the distribution of men is less concentrated in one or two major occupational groupings; and that the higher levels of schooling appear to allow a man more access to the skilled occupations in processing and construction. The opposite is true for a woman.

If we compare this table to table 2, which indicates unemployment levels in each occupational group, we find that the most likely group of women to be unemployed are those with low educational levels in service and processing occupations and that the most likely men to be unemployed are those with varying educational levels in the construction trades.

Note that the data do not distinguish between skill levels or categories within an occupational group. For example, under educated men and women employed in processing occupations probably hold such positions as assembly-line worker; while the educated men in the same occupational group probably hold such high-skill positions as computer repairman.