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Show Women as Workers 80 Table 38.-UNEMPLOYMENT RATES OF WOMEN, BY PRINCIPAL OCCUPATION, 1960- Continued (Women 14 years of age and over) Employed women Occupation Number 1 Practical nurses Kitchen workers vate-household) _ (n.e.c.) (except pri_ Chambermaids and maids (except pri- vate-household) Housekeepers (private-household) Opera ti ves (electrical machinery, eq uipment, and supplies) Receptionists _ _ _ _ Charwomen and c1eaners _ Housekeepers and stewardesses (except private-household) Dressmakers and seamstresses (except factory) _ _ Counter and fountain workers File clerks _ Musicians and music teachers Operatives (yarn, thread, mills) 1 2 _ and _ fabric _ As percent of Unemploy employed rate» total ment 197, 115 96 5.0 179,796 59 8. 1 162,433 143,290 98 8.0 99 3.8 138,001 131, 142 122,728 48 9.8 98 4.1 68 5.6 117,693 81 3.4 115,252 112,547 112,323 109,638 103,399 97 3.6 71 5.5 86 5.5 57 1.4 44 8.4 Individual occupations in which 100,000 or more women were employed in 1960. Experienced civilian labor force. Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census: Detailed Characteristics, U.S. Summary, PC(l)-lD." 1963. 41. Women as "U.S. Census of Population: 1960. Members of Unions An estimated 3,413,016 32 women were members of national and international labor unions in the United States in 1964, according to a survey made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This was an in crease of about 141,010 since 1962. Almost 1 out of 5 union members in 1964 was a woman. About 1 out of 8 women in the Nation's labor force, but more than 1 out of 4 men workers, belonged to a union. The relatively low pro of women who are union members reflects to some extent the portion nature of women's employment and the industries in which they work. Women who expect to remain in the labor force only a few years or who are part-time or part-year workers may feel less inclined to join a union than do men who expect to work during most of their lives. 32 May include a few members living outside the United States. |
