|
Table 3.
Labour force statistics by occupation for women
(various years)
|
Percentage of |
Distribution of |
Rate
of change |
|
occupation which
is female |
women among
groups |
from 1961 to 1977 |
|
|
|
%change |
% Change |
|
|
|
in total |
in women |
Occupational groups
|
1961
|
1973
|
1977
|
1961
|
1973
|
1977
|
workers
|
workers
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Managerial |
11% |
15% |
22% |
4% |
4% |
4% |
+18% |
+116% |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Professional & technical |
42 |
41 |
50 |
15 |
17 |
21 |
+135 |
+ 180 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Clerical |
62 |
73 |
76 |
30 |
34 |
38 |
+109 |
+154 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Sales |
36 |
40 |
37 |
9 |
8 |
10 |
+107 |
+104 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Services |
58 |
58 |
48 |
23 |
21 |
15 |
+61 |
+31 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Primary occupations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| agriculture |
8 |
13 |
23 |
3 |
2 |
1 |
-75 |
-30 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| other |
* |
* |
* |
* |
* |
* |
17 |
* |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Processing occupations |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| crafts persons and |
15 |
15 |
19 |
13 |
11 |
10 |
+25 |
+48 |
| operatives |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Construction trades |
* |
* |
1 |
* |
* |
* |
( data not |
provided) |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Transport equipment |
9 |
10 |
4 |
2 |
2 |
* |
-13 |
-65 |
| operation |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
100% |
100% |
100% |
|
|
* values too small to be of statistical significance.
| Source: |
Economic Council of Canada, People and jobs: A study of
the Canadian labour market. (Ottawa: Information Canada, 1976), Table 4-2.
|
| |
|
| |
Statistics Canada, Labour Force
Survey Division, The labour force: 1977 annual averages (December 1977),
(Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 1977). |
Comment:
The distribution of women among the various occupational groups
has shifted slightly over the past sixteen years away from the service
occupations and toward the clerical, professional, and technical occupations.
This reflects an increase in occupational skill levels from semi and unskilled
labour to skilled labour.
In general women have increased their representation in the
occupational groups with the higher occupational skill requirements.
Furthermore, the growth rate for women in these groups is higher than those for
men. Women are, however, losing ground (if they ever had much) in the
blue-collar high-skill occupations. |