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Table 10.
Occupational distributions for native-born (to
Canada) and foreign-born
women resident in Canada (for Canada, 1971)
|
Native-born |
Foreign-born |
All women |
| Occupational group |
__women__ |
__women__ |
__________ |
| |
|
|
|
| Managerial |
2.3% |
1.9% |
2% |
| |
|
|
|
| Professional & technical |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| natural sciences
|
0.5 |
1.1 |
1 |
| |
|
|
|
| social sciences |
1.1 |
1.1 |
1 |
| |
|
|
|
| religion |
0.2 |
0.1 |
* |
| |
|
|
|
| teaching |
8.6 |
5.4 |
7 |
| |
|
|
|
| medicine &
health |
9.4 |
8.5 |
9 |
| |
|
|
|
| artistic,
literature |
0.8 |
1.0 |
1 |
| & recreation |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| Clerical |
37.1 |
29.8 |
34 |
| |
|
|
|
| Sales |
9.6 |
8.7 |
9 |
| |
|
|
|
| Services |
16.3 |
19.6 |
18 |
| |
|
|
|
| Primary occupations |
4.3 |
3.4 |
4 |
| agriculture and others
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| Processing occupations |
6.7 |
15.0 |
11 |
| machining, fabricating,
|
|
|
|
| assembling, repairing |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| Construction trades |
0.2 |
0.3 |
* |
| |
|
|
|
| Transport equipment |
0.3 |
0.2 |
* |
| operation |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
| Craftsperson, material |
1.9 |
2.8 |
2 |
| handling, operatives
|
|
|
|
| Source: |
M. Boyd, "The status of immigrant women in Canada" in M.
Stephenson (ed.), Women in Canada (revised ed.). (Don Mills, Ont.:
General Publishing Co. Ltd., 1977), p. 241, Table 5. |
|