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Table 12
Distribution of employment by occupations, 1987, 1999 and 2009
| Occupations | 1987 | 1999 | 2009 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | Men | Women as a percentage of total occupations |
Women | Men | Women as a percentage of total occupations |
Women | Men | Women as a percentage of total occupations |
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| percentage | |||||||||
| Managerial | |||||||||
| Senior management | 0.3 | 0.8 | 21.0 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 28.2 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 31.6 |
| Other management | 5.7 | 9.7 | 30.7 | 6.9 | 10.6 | 35.5 | 6.7 | 10.4 | 37.4 |
| Total management | 6.0 | 10.5 | 30.1 | 7.2 | 11.3 | 35.1 | 7.0 | 11.0 | 37.0 |
| Professsional | |||||||||
| Business and finance | 1.9 | 2.3 | 38.3 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 49.3 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 51.2 |
| Natural sciences/engineering/mathematics | 2.3 | 7.0 | 19.5 | 3.0 | 9.6 | 20.7 | 3.3 | 10.6 | 22.3 |
| Social sciences/religion | 4.3 | 2.0 | 61.4 | 5.8 | 2.4 | 67.7 | 7.7 | 2.7 | 72.5 |
| Teaching | 3.8 | 2.6 | 52.3 | 5.2 | 2.7 | 61.9 | 5.8 | 2.7 | 65.9 |
| Doctors/dentists/other health | 0.9 | 0.9 | 43.1 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 47.3 | 1.5 | 1.1 | 55.2 |
| Nursing/therapy/other health related | 8.3 | 0.9 | 87.1 | 8.1 | 1.1 | 86.3 | 9.1 | 1.2 | 87.1 |
| Artistics/literary/recreational | 2.7 | 2.1 | 48.4 | 3.4 | 2.4 | 54.1 | 3.7 | 2.9 | 54.4 |
| Total professional | 24.1 | 18.0 | 50.4 | 29.7 | 21.9 | 53.4 | 34.7 | 24.4 | 56.7 |
| Clerical and administrative | 29.7 | 7.9 | 73.9 | 24.6 | 6.8 | 75.4 | 23.2 | 6.9 | 75.5 |
| Sales and services | 30.0 | 18.4 | 55.2 | 29.4 | 18.6 | 57.3 | 28.9 | 20.1 | 56.9 |
| Primary | 2.3 | 7.2 | 19.7 | 1.9 | 5.9 | 21.6 | 1.3 | 4.9 | 19.5 |
| Trades, transport and construction | 2.1 | 28.9 | 5.2 | 2.0 | 26.1 | 6.0 | 2.0 | 26.3 | 6.4 |
| Processing, manufacturing and utilities | 5.8 | 9.1 | 32.4 | 5.2 | 9.3 | 32.2 | 2.9 | 6.3 | 30.1 |
| Total occupations1 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 43.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 45.9 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 47.9 |
| Total Employed (thousands) | 5,307.7 | 7,025.3 | … | 6,609.6 | 7,797.2 | … | 8,076.2 | 8,772.7 | … |
| 1. Includes occupations that are not classified. Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey. |
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