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Show 107 Women in the Labor Force hotels, laundries or drycleaners, and beauty shops. The remainder, about 600,000 women, were engaged in business and repair services Of the women engaged in or recreation and entertainment services. million were distribution of 4.6 the employed in retail trade goods, and almost half a million in wholesale trade. Another 4.9 million, or 20 percent of all employed women, were engaged in manufacturing industries. In only two other industries finance, insurance, and real estate and public administration-were as many as 1 million women employed. Ohanges in women's employment by indu;stry.-Proportionately employed in 1965 than in 1940 in construction; wholesale trade; retail trade; finance, insurance, and real estate; and public administration as these industries expanded with the growing economy. On the other hand, smaller proportions of all employed women were in agriculture; manufacturing; transportation, communi cation, and other public utilities; and the service industries. Twenty percent of all employed women were in manufacturing in 1965-down from a high of 23 percent in 1950. In the service industries the pro portion of women employed in professional and related services rose significantly-from 17 percent in 1940 to 25 percent in 1965-while the percentage in personal services dropped from 26 to 15 percent. Women as a percent of all workers.-Only in service industries were more women were women more than 50 percent of all workers in 1965. Within this in percent of all jobs in professional and re dustry group lated services and 75 percent in personal services, compared with only women held 61 24 percent in business and repair services and 30 percent in entertain ment and recreation services. Women were also well represented and among all workers both in retail trade and in finance, insurance, real estate. In fact, in the latter two industry groups the proportion of all workers who were women rose sharply between 1940 and 1965. About 47 percent of all employees in finance, insurance, and real estate in 1965 were. women compared with only 33 percent" in 1940. Simi larly, 42 percent of the workers in retail trade in 1965 were women compared with 31 percent in 1940. 54. Women as Nonfarm Workers Women's employment in certain detailed industries is tabulated quarterly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The figures for women employed in manufacturing have been issued since October 1940 (with a few breaks in continuity). Those for women in selected nonmanu facturing industries date only from January 1960. Because these |
