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| 1987 | 1996 | 2006 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Women | Men | Women as a percentage of total employed in occupation | Women | Men | Women as a percentage of total employed in occupation | Women | Men | Women as a percentage of total employed in occupation | |
| percentage | |||||||||
| Managerial | |||||||||
Senior management |
0.3 | 0.8 | 21.0 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 27.2 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 26.3 |
Other management |
5.7 | 9.7 | 30.7 | 7.8 | 10.9 | 37.5 | 6.7 | 10.2 | 36.9 |
Total management |
6.0 | 10.5 | 30.1 | 8.2 | 11.6 | 37.0 | 7.1 | 11.0 | 36.3 |
| Professional | |||||||||
Business and finance |
1.9 | 2.3 | 38.3 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 46.9 | 3.3 | 2.8 | 51.6 |
Natural sciences/ engineering/mathematics |
2.3 | 7.0 | 19.6 | 2.3 | 8.0 | 19.1 | 3.2 | 10.1 | 22.0 |
Social sciences/religion |
4.3 | 2.0 | 61.4 | 6.0 | 2.3 | 68.8 | 6.7 | 2.4 | 71.3 |
Teaching |
3.8 | 2.6 | 52.3 | 5.1 | 2.8 | 60.1 | 5.6 | 2.8 | 63.9 |
Doctors/dentists/other health |
0.9 | 0.9 | 43.1 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 48.1 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 55.3 |
Nursing/therapy/other health-related |
8.3 | 0.9 | 87.1 | 8.3 | 1.0 | 87.0 | 8.9 | 1.1 | 87.4 |
Artistic/literary/ recreational |
2.7 | 2.1 | 48.4 | 3.1 | 2.4 | 51.5 | 3.4 | 2.6 | 54.1 |
Total professional |
24.1 | 18.0 | 50.4 | 28.8 | 20.3 | 54.2 | 32.5 | 22.9 | 55.9 |
| Clerical and administrative | 29.7 | 7.9 | 73.9 | 25.6 | 7.2 | 74.9 | 24.1 | 7.1 | 75.0 |
| Sales and service | 30.0 | 18.4 | 55.2 | 28.6 | 19.2 | 55.4 | 28.6 | 19.3 | 56.8 |
| Primary | 2.3 | 7.2 | 19.7 | 2.1 | 6.5 | 20.9 | 1.5 | 5.3 | 20.5 |
| Trades, transport and construction | 2.1 | 28.9 | 5.2 | 2.1 | 26.4 | 6.1 | 2.1 | 26.3 | 6.5 |
| Processing, manufacturing and utilities | 5.8 | 9.1 | 32.4 | 4.7 | 8.8 | 30.6 | 4.1 | 8.1 | 31.1 |
| Total1 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 43.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 45.4 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 47.1 |
| Total employed (thousands) | 5,307.7 | 7,025.3 | ... | 6,099.0 | 7,322.4 | ... | 7,757.2 | 8,727.1 | ... |
| 1. Includes occupations that are not classified. | |||||||||
| Source: Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey. | |||||||||