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Stats Canada.- More
than 50% of women in Canada are in the workforce -
The Business Jacket is probably the first purchase a woman would
make upon entering the workforce. It is the uniform for her as she
moves up into management.
These
data indicate where we women spend our managerial work time:
1.
48% in managerial positions. (4)
2. 20.7% are of all physicians. (2)
3. About 40% of instructors and researchers. (5)
4. About 43% of research and instruction assistants. (5)
5. About 44% of executive, administrative and managerial
staff members. (5)
6. Professional staff at public schools: 45%
of principals and assistant principals were women in 1996. (6)
7. 9. 41% of school officials and administrators. (6)
8. 75% of all public school teachers. (6)
9. Women as lawyers: 24% of the nation. (8)
10. 14% of partners at law firms. (9)
11. 48% lawyers in private practice were sole practitioners
(8)
12. Women in broadcast communications: 40%t
of the TV news workforce with 24% of TV directors being women, in
1999. (11)
13. In radio 35% of the workforce, while 20% of radio news
directors were women, in 1999. (11)
14. About 13% of general managers in radio newsrooms and
14% of general managers in TV newsrooms were women in 1999. (11)
15. Participation of women in occupations in 1998 (7):
Accountants and auditors: 58.2%
16. Actors and directors: 38.7%
17. Architects: 17.5%
18. Airplane pilots and navigators: 3.4%
19. Engineers: 11.1%
20. Chemists (except biochemists): 32.9%
21. Clergy: 12%
22. Computer programmers: 28.5%
23. Computer systems analysts, scientists: 26.9%
24. Construction trades: 2%
25. Correctional institution officers: 25.4%
26. Dentists: 19.8%
27. Editors and reporters: 51%
28. Economists: 46.3%
29. Farm operators and managers: 23.1%
30. Financial managers: 53.3%Guards: 26%
31. Lawyers and judges: 28.6%
32. Medical scientists: 45.2%
33. Pharmacists: 44%
34. Photographers: 38.1%
35. 38. Physicians: 26.6%
Sources:
1- Fortune magazine, 50 Most Powerful Women listing.
2-
American Medical Association.
3-
US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
4-
Wall Street Journal and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
5-
U.S. Center for Educational Statistics, Fall Staff in Postsecondary
Institutions, 1995, March 1998.
6-
U.S. Equal Opportunity Commission, Elementary-Secondary Staff information
(EE0-5), biennial.
7-
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings, monthly,
January issues, and unpublished data.
8-
Curran, Barbara A., Women in the Law: A Look at the Numbers (American
Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, 1995)
9-
American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession,
Report to the ABA House of Delegates, on the Status of Women in
the Legal Profession, August 10, 1988; American Bar Association
Commission on Women in the Profession, 1997 Goal IX Report Card;
Federal Judicial; Center, National Center for State Courts.
10-
Curran, Barbara A., Women in the Law: A Look at the Numbers (American
Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession, 1995); Curran,
Barbara A. and Clara N. Carson, The Lawyer Statistical Report: The
U.S. Legal Profession in the 1990s (American Bar Foundation, 1994);
National Association for Law Placement, Selected Class of 1997 Employment
Report and Salary Survey Findings, 1998.
11-
Survey by the Radio and Television News Directors Association.
12-
Catalyst, "Catalyst Census Marks Gains in Numbers of Women
Corporate Officers in America's Largest 500 Companies," Nov.
19, 2002.
13-
Catalyst, "Catalyst Charts Growth of Women on America's Corporate
Boards," Dec. 4, 2002.
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