Stats and Facts

Statistics and Facts:
In this post you will find a bunch of statistics about women in male jobs and some fun facts that you might not have known. Go ahead, take a look. It was very interesting to me to find such big percentages and changes in recent years. Women are taking big steps into the men’s world of work!

I first explore the United States government web site and I thought it gave me some great numbers to start off this post. According to the government…
- Many occupations once dominated by men have seen a great increase in numbers of women workers since 1983, according to figures released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
- Other traditionally male-dominated occupations seeing increases in female workers included:
- • Police detectives and supervisors -- 360 percent increase
- • Millwrights -- 315 percent increase
- • Civil Engineers -- 196 percent increase
- • Automobile mechanics -- 177 percent increase
- • Firefighting occupations -- 174 percent increase
- • Airplane pilots and navigators -- 167 percent increase

You can read more about these statistics at: http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/censusandstatistics/a/menwomenjobs.ht

Then I wanted to try and find where women are taking over men’s positions the most and found out the top 10 so called “white collar” jobs. They are…
1. Veterinarians (female vets have increased from less than 2 percent to 43 percent)
2. Top public administrators (37 percent are now women, compared to 4 percent in 1989)
3. Math & science teachers (increased 6-fold)
4. Chemistry teachers (increased 4-fold)
5. Industrial engineers (22 percent are now women, compared to 6 percent in 1989)
6. Dentists (increased 4-fold)
7. Car salespeople (increased 3-fold)
8. Messengers (increased 3-fold)
9. Physicians assistants (increased from 20 percent to 58 percent)
10. Members of the clergy (6 percent of clergy members were women in 1989 compared to 18 percent today). Of the 497 occupations tracked by the government, women have increased their representation in 106 job categories.

THIS IS GREAT!!! Women are stepping it up and the United States is starting to see that women can do the same jobs as men if not the same maybe even better. I found all this information at: http://www.roadandtravel.com/businessandcareer/careers/womenbreak.htm

It’s funny….well not really… but women are taking over and have progressed majorly in the past years. Just take a look at some of these facts and statistics!

- Of the 122 million women age 16 years and over in the U.S., 72 million or 59.2 percent, were labor force participants—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 labor force in 2018.
- Women are projected to account for 51.2 percent of the increased total labor force growth between 2008 and 2018
- 66 million women were employed in the U.S. – 74 percent of those worked on full time jobs with 26 percent being part time.]
- The largest percentage of employed women (40 percent) worked in management, professional, and related occupations, 32 percent worked in sales and office occupations, 21 percent in services ooccupations, 5 percent in production, transportation, and material moving occupatioins and 1 percent in natural resources, construction and maintenance occupations.
- The 20 most prevalent occupations for employed women in 2009 were—
1. Secretaries and administrative assistants, 3,074,000
2. Registered nurses, 2,612,000
3. Elementary and middle school teachers, 2,343,000
4. Cashiers, 2,273,000
5. Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides, 1,770,000
6. Retail salespersons, 1,650,000
7. First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers, 1,459,000
8. Waiters and waitresses, 1,434,000
9. Maids and housekeeping cleaners, 1,282,000
10. Customer service representatives, 1,263,000
11. Child care workers, 1,228,000
12. Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, 1,205,000
13. Receptionists and information clerks, 1,168,000
14. First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers, 1,163,000
15. Managers, all other, 1,106,000
16. Accountants and auditors, 1,084,000
17. Teacher assistants, 921,000
18. Cooks, 831,000
19. Office clerks, general 821,000
20. 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 percent; white women, 7.3 percent; Hispanic women, 11.5 percent; and black women, 12.4 percent.
- The median weekly earnings of women who were full-time wage and salary workers was $657, or 80 percent of men’s $819. When comparing the median weekly earnings of persons aged 16 to 24, young women earned 93 percent of what young men earned ($424 and $458, respectively).
- The 20 occupations with the highest median weekly earnings among women who were full-time wage and salary workers in 2009 were--
1. Pharmacists, $1,475
2. Lawyers, $1,449
3. Computer and information systems managers, $1,411
4. Computer software Chief executives, $1,553
5. Engineers, $1,311
6. Physicians and surgeons, $1,228
7. Computer programmers, $1,182
8. Management analysts, $1,177
9. Computer scientists and systems analysts, $1,167
10. Occupational therapists, $1,155
11. Speech-language pathologists, $1,148
12. General and operations managers, $1,110
13. Education administrators, $1,093
14. Psychologists, $1,091
15. Personal financial advisors, $1,088
16. Human resources managers, $1,072
17. Marketing sales managers, $1,052
18. Managers, all other, $1,037
19. Registered nurses, $1,035
20. Network systems and data communications analysts, $1,032

- Women accounted for 51 percent of all workers in the high-paying management, professional, and related occupations. Here is just a sample of these occupations where women were the larger percentage of those employed:
Occupation Percent Female
Registered nurses.................................................. 92.0 percent
Meeting and convention planners.................. 83.3
Elementary and middle school teachers............ 81.9
Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents 73.8
Medical and health services managers............. 69.5
Social and community service managers........... 69.4
Psychologists.......................................... 68.8
Other business operations specialists.............. 68.4
Human resources managers......................... 66.8
Financial specialists, all other...................... 66.6
Tax preparers...................................... 65.9
Insurance underwriters............................. 62.8
Education administrators........................... 62.6
Accountants and auditors........................ 61.8
Veterinarians......................................... 61.2
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners,
and investigators.................................. 60.6
Budget analysts...................................... 59.3
Medical scientists.................................... 56.9
Advertising and promotions managers........... 56.5
Financial managers................................. 54.7


- Of persons aged 25 years and older, 29 percent of women and 30 percent of men had attained a bachelor’s degree or higher; 31 percent of women and men had completed only high school, no college.
- The higher a person’s educational attainment, the more likely they will be a labor force participant (working or looking for work) and less likely to be unemployed.
- For women age 25 and over with less than a high school diploma, 34 percent were labor force participants; high school diploma, no college, 53 percent; some college, but no degree, 62 percent; associate degree, 72 percent; and bachelor’s degree or higher, 73 percent.
- For women age 25 and over with less than a high school diploma, their unemployment rate was 14.2 percent; high school diploma, no college, 8.0 percent; some college, but no degree, 8.0 percent; associate degree, 5.9 percent; and bachelor’s degree or higher, 4.5 percent.

That was a lot of information to take in, but don't worry guys, women don't bite!!!

It was all found at: http://www.dol.gov/wb/stats/main.htm

Please feel free to read more on the topic. These are just some statistics and facts about women in male jobs!

Thanks! Danyale