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Show 103 Women -in the Labor Force Table GROUPS OCCUPATIONAL 47.-MAJOR AND SELECTED OCCUPATIONS OF WOMEN, APRIL 1965 EMPLOYED NONWHITE (Nonwhite women 14 years of age and over) As per- Major occupational group or selected occupation Total ____ - - - - - - - - - __ - - - __ - Number ___ - Professional, technical, kindred workers 3,078,000 1 ___ 268, 000 Percent cent of total distribu- employed women tion 100.0 12.5 8. 7 8.1 ---- Medical, other health workers Teachers (except college) Managers, officials, proprietors (except farm) ________ ____________ _______________________________ Clerical, kindred workers __ - - ___ - - _ - _ - _ __ 62,000 160, 000 49,000 1397,000 2.0 6. 6 5. 2 11. 6 1.6 4.4 12.9 5.1 ----- Stenographers, typists, secretaries Sales workers ____ Retail trade - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ____ - - _ - ________________________ Craftsmen, foremen, kindred workers Operatives, kindred workers _____ _____________ 3.0 3.3 165,000 2.1 3. 5 58,000 15,000 1471,000 1.9 3. 5 92,000 .5 5. 3 15.3 12.9 2.9 9.1 ----- Durable goods rnanufacturing ________ Nondurable goods manufacturing Laborers (except farm, mine) Private-household workers _____ ____________ _______________ Service workers (except private-household}, Waitresses, cooks, bartenders Farmers, farm managers Farm laborers, foremen _ - _ - - ______________ _____ Paid wor kers ______ - ___ Unpaid family workers I - - - __ - - _ - _ - _ - _ - _ - __ - _ - _ - _ - _ - - - - - ______________ 89,000 172,000 5. 6 9.1 22,000 920,000 1782,000 .7 19.0 29. 9 45.4 25.4 20.4 185,000 6.0 13.4 15, 000 74,000 39,000 35,000 .5 10. 7 2.4 13.9 1.3 32.3 1.2 9.0 Includes women in occupations not shown separately in this category. and Earnings, May 1965. Source: u.s. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment Another measure of the types of jobs held by teenage girls is their oc representation among all employed women in the various major of age ac-. girls 14 to 19 years cupational groups. Thus, although counted for less than 10 percent of all employed women, they were of 27 workers, 16 percent of nonfarm la private-household percent the other borers, and 17 percent of farm laborers and foremen. On farm both hand, they were only a very small proportion of managers, and other, and of professional and technical workers. |
