Comment:

Table 1 indicates that the vast majority of women are employed in service- producing industries (82.9%) as opposed to goods-producing industries (17.1%). The distribution for men is much more even, with 59.1% of males in service-producing industries and 40.9% in goods-producing industries.

Note that the unemployment rate is generally higher for both sexes in the goods- producing industries; and that the unemployment rates for women are higher than those for men in all but three industries - construction, utilities, and other primary industries. However, the concentration of women in high unemployment industries is not as great as it is for men.

Only in two industries do women outnumber men -- community, business and personal services; and finance, insurance and real estate. In all industries women account for 38% of paid workers while men account for 62%.

The data do not indicate what range or type of occupations women hold in each industrial group The demand for Manpower will continue to shift towards the white-collar and related service industries. Their command of total employment is predicted to increase to 68% by 1982, with a proportional decline in all the goods-producing industries. ¹

^{1 .}Economic Council of Canada, People and Jobs; A study of the Canadian labour market. (Ottawa: Information Canada, 1976), p. 26.