WORKFORCE DIVERSITY
Statistics on Women Workers O
f the 122 million women age 16 years and over in the U.S., 72 mil-
lion, or 59.2 percent, were labor force par- ticipants—working or looking for work. Women comprised 46.8 percent of the
total U.S. labor force and are projected to account for 46.9 percent of the labor force in 2018.
Women are projected to account for
51.2 percent of the increase in total labor force growth between 2008 and 2018. 66 million women were employed in
the U.S.—74 percent of employed women worked on full-time jobs, while 26 per- cent worked on a part-time basis. The largest percentage of employed
women (40 percent) worked in manage- ment, professional, and related occupa- tions; 32 percent worked in sales and of- fice occupations; 21 percent in service occupations; 5 percent in production, transportation, and material moving occu- pations; and 1 percent in natural resourc- es, construction, and maintenance occu- pations. The largest percentage of employed
Asian, white, and black women (47, 41, and 34 percent, respectively) worked in management, professional, and related occupations. For Hispanic women, it was sales and office occupations—32 percent. The 20 most prevalent occupations for employed women in 2009 were— „ Secretaries and administrative assistants, 3,074,000 „ Registered nurses, 2,612,000 „ Elementary and middle school teachers, 2,343,000 „ Cashiers, 2,273,000 „ Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides, 1,770,000 „ Retail salespersons, 1,650,000 „ First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers, 1,459,000 „ Waiters and waitresses, 1,434,000 „ Maids and housekeeping cleaners, 1,282,000 „ Customer service representatives, 1,263,000 „ Child care workers, 1,228,000 „ Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, 1,205,000 „ Receptionists and information clerks, 1,168,000 First-line supervisors/managers of of-
fice and administrative support workers, 1,163,000 „ Managers, all other, 1,106,000 „ Accountants and auditors, 1,084,000 „ Teacher assistants, 921,000 „ Cooks, 831,000 „ Office clerks, general 821,000 „ Personal and home care aides, 789,000 The unemployment rate for all women
was 8.1 percent and 10.3 percent for men in 2009. For Asian women it was 6.6 per- cent; white women, 7.3 percent; Hispanic
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