Comment:

Table 18 indicates that:

- 78% of women workers are employed full-time; 33% part-time

- 71% of all part-time workers are female.

- Full-time women workers work fewer hours per week than full-time male workers. Part-time women work more hours per week than part-time males.

- Women have higher absentee rates than men Slightly more women than men report working fewer hours per week rather than being totally absent.

- Men and women are unemployed about the same length of time.

- 41% of unemployment beneficiaries are women 39% of total unemployment benefits are paid to women 44% of the officially unemployed are women

- the weekly unemployment benefit paid to women is 77% of the male benefit.

Refer to table 20 for a further discussion of the hidden unemployed.