 Women outnumber men in Canadian workforce Statistics Canada figures suggest that for the first time in history there are more women than men in Canada's workforce.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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That's because men dominate in the old rustbucket industries. Women are more inclined to end up in the service sectors, less prone, at this point, to layoffs.
http://www.cprn.org/documents/18381_en.pdf
Common sense, really; nothing controversial.
notably. Whereas women once accounted for just one-quarter of own account
workers, they now comprise 40 percent of this group. As employers, women still
make up a smaller part of the workforce but have increased their numbers
significantly, from 11.3 percent in 1971 to nearly one-quarter of employers in
1997.
And I'm sure that trend continued over the last 12 years too.
Are all the tupperware and avon sales ladies counted too, or is that "just a little job"?
Don't know what the status of these people is. Not employees, but perhaps dependent contractors? In that case I expect they would be included.
In this analysis, we follow Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey, which defines the following groups as “self-employed”:
i) Working owners of incorporated businesses with paid help
ii) Working owners of incorporated businesses without paid help
iii) Working owners of unincorporated businesses or other self-employed with paid help
iv) Working owners of unincorporated businesses or other self-employed without paid help
v) Unpaid family members
Because we are interested in those working for pay, we exclude unpaid family members, which are a relatively small group.
“Self-employed workers” thus includes all those within categories i) to iv) above.
In our analysis, we combine these four categories into two main groups: “employers” (i.e., self-employed workers who had
paid help in both incorporated and unincorporated businesses) and “own account workers” (i.e., self-employed workers without
paid help in both incorporated and unincorporated business).
Report, page 9.