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Show Women in the Labor Force 79 The highest unemployment rates (9 to 13 percent) were those of assemblers in factories, packers and wrappers, operatives in electrical machinery manufacturing, and checkers and examiners in manu facturing. In contrast, there was almost no unemployment (less than 1 percent) among elementary and secondary school teachers and very little (less than 2 percent) among secretaries, professional nurses, and hairdressers and cosmetologists. Unemployment rates of women in other principal occupations fell between these extremes. Rates were about 5 percent for saleswomen and private-household workers (n.e.c.) (occupations in which more than a million women were em ployed in 1960) and 8 percent for waitresses (of whom 715,000 were employed in 1960) . Table 38.-UNEMPLOYMENT RATES OF WOMEN, BY PRINCIPAL OCCUPATION, 1960 (Women 14 years of age and over) Employed women Occupation Total Secretaries Number 1 _______________________ _________________________ Saleswomen (retail trade) ____________ Private-household workers (n.e.c.) Teachers (elementary school) Bookkeepers Waitresses _______________________ _________________________ Nurses (professional) ________________ Sewers and stitchers (mfg.) Typists ____ ________ __________ ____________________________ Cashiers Cooks (except private-household) ___________________________ _____ Telephone operators Babysitters Attendants (hospitals and other institu tions) Laundry and dry cleaning operatives ________________ ________________________ _________________________ __ Assemblers ________________________ Operatives (apparel and accessories) Hairdressers and cosmetologists Packers and wrappers (n.e.c.) Stenographers Teachers (secondary school) __ ______ ________ ______________________ _________ Office machine operators Checkers, examiners, (mfg.) _____________ and inspectors ___________________________ See footnotes at end of table. 7719 5,55 0-66r---.7 ..... 21,172,301 1,423,352 1,397,364 1,162,683 860,413 764,054 714,827 567,884 534,258 496,735 367,954 361,772 341,797 319,735 288,268 277,396 270,769 270,619 267,050 262,935 258,554 243,452 227,849 215,066 As percent of total employed ---------- U nemployment rate 2 5. 1 97 1.9 54 5. 1 96 5.3 86 .7 84 2.5 87 8.0 98 1.6 94 7.8 95 3.9 18 4.9 64 5. 1 96 4.0 98 6.5 74 4.2 72 6.4 44 12.9 75 8.1 89 1.7 60 12.4 96 2. 1 47 .6 74 3.6 45 9.1 |
