Nontraditional Occupations for Women in 20001
numbers in thousands
Employed | Employed | Percent | |
Occupations | Both Sexes | Female | Female |
Helpers, surveyor | 8 | 2 | 25.0 |
Post secondary natural science teachers, n.e.c.2 | 4 | 1 | 25.0 |
Atmospheric and space scientist | 12 | 3 | 25.0 |
Precision inspectors, testers, and related workers | 148 | 36 | 24.3 |
Messengers | 157 | 38 | 24.2 |
Production helpers | 75 | 18 | 24.0 |
Post secondary theology teachers | 21 | 5 | 23.8 |
Architects | 215 | 51 | 23.7 |
Metal and plastic processing machine operators | 150 | 35 | 23.5 |
Drafting occupations | 219 | 51 | 23.4 |
Supervisors, guards | 53 | 12 | 22.6 |
Sales workers, hardware, and building supplies | 328 | 73 | 22.2 |
Farms managers, except horticultural | 149 | 33 | 22.1 |
Chemical technicians | 71 | 15 | 21.1 |
Laborers, except construction | 1,307 | 272 | 20.8 |
Upholsterers | 64 | 13 | 20.3 |
Guards and police, except public service | 745 | 150 | 20.1 |
Elevator operators | 5 | 1 | 20.0 |
Athletes | 90 | 18 | 20.0 |
Supervisors, precision production occupations | 1,129 | 222 | 19.7 |
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers | 156 | 30 | 19.2 |
Funeral directors | 58 | 11 | 19.0 |
Farm workers | 768 | 144 | 18.7 |
Dentists | 168 | 31 | 18.7 |
Metal working and plastic working machine operators | 349 | 64 | 18.3 |
Supervisors, motor vehicle operators | 77 | 14 | 18.2 |
Printing press operators | 292 | 51 | 17.5 |
Electrical and electronic technicians | 468 | 79 | 16.9 |
Purchasing agents and buyers, farm products | 12 | 2 | 16.7 |
Parking lot attendants | 60 | 10 | 16.7 |
Police and detectives | 1,060 | 175 | 16.5 |
Hand painting, coating and decorating occupations | 25 | 4 | 16.0 |
Data processing equipment repairers | 342 | 53 | 15.4 |
Grinding, abrading, buffing, and polishing | 98 | 15 | 15.2 |
Managers, horticultural specialty farms | 27 | 4 | 14.8 |
Metal plating machine operators | 27 | 4 | 14.8 |
Woodworking machine operators | 137 | 20 | 14.6 |
Hand molders and shapers, excluding jewelers | 21 | 3 | 14.3 |
Supervisors, handlers, equipment cleaners, and laborers | 14 | 2 | 14.3 |
Clergy | 369 | 51 | 13.8 |
Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners | 313 | 43 | 13.7 |
Horticultural specialty farmers | 69 | 9 | 13.0 |
Meter readers | 46 | 6 | 13.0 |
Air traffic controllers | 23 | 3 | 13.0 |
Horticultural specialty farmers | 69 | 9 | 12.8 |
Geologists and geodesists | 47 | 6 | 12.8 |
Painting and paint spraying machine operators | 187 | 23 | 12.4 |
Helpers, mechanics and repairers | 33 | 4 | 12.1 |
Physicists and astronomers | 25 | 3 | 12.0 |
Compressing and compacting machine oprators | 17 | 2 | 11.8 |
Fishers, hunters, and trappers | 51 | 6 | 11.8 |
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c.2 | 739 | 86 | 11.6 |
Supervisors, farm workers | 45 | 5 | 11.1 |
Announcers | 54 | 6 | 11.1 |
Precision woodworking occupations | 127 | 14 | 11.0 |
Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats | 329 | 36 | 10.9 |
Drivers-sales workers | 167 | 18 | 10.8 |
Taxicab drivers and chauffeurs | 280 | 30 | 10.7 |
Engineers | 2,093 | 207 | 9.9 |
Construction inspectors | 72 | 7 | 9.7 |
Baggage porters and bellhops | 42 | 4 | 9.5 |
Supervisors, related agricultural occupations | 174 | 16 | 9.3 |
Motor transportation occupations, n.e.c.2 | 11 | 1 | 9.1 |
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers | 223 | 20 | 9.0 |
Extruding and forming machine operators | 34 | 3 | 8.8 |
Sales workers, parts | 186 | 16 | 8.6 |
Patternmakers, lay-out workers, and cutters | 12 | 1 | 8.3 |
Forestry and logging occupations | 109 | 9 | 8.3 |
Mixing and blending machine operators | 112 | 9 | 8.0 |
Garage and service station related occupations | 184 | 14 | 7.6 |
Surveying and mapping technicians | 79 | 6 | 7.6 |
Precision metal working occupations | 865 | 65 | 7.5 |
Misc. metal and plastic processing machine operators | 27 | 2 | 7.4 |
Groundskeepers and gardeners, except farm | 870 | 64 | 7.4 |
Industrial truck and tractor equipment operators | 569 | 40 | 7.0 |
Stationary engineers | 118 | 8 | 6.7 |
Machinists | 488 | 31 | 6.3 |
Sales engineers | 32 | 2 | 6.2 |
Broadcast equipment operators | 33 | 2 | 6.1 |
Helpers, construction and extractive occupations | 120 | 7 | 5.9 |
Mechanical engineering technicians | 17 | 1 | 5.9 |
Furnace, kiln, and oven operators, except food | 53 | 3 | 5.7 |
Pest control occupations | 71 | 4 | 5.6 |
Grading, dozer, and scraper operators | 52 | 3 | 5.5 |
Material moving equipment operators | 1,152 | 62 | 5.4 |
Water & sewage treatment & power plant opers., & related occs. | 264 | 14 | 5.3 |
Mechanics and repairers, excluding supervisors | 4,652 | 230 | 4.9 |
Welders and cutters | 594 | 29 | 4.9 |
Truck drivers | 3,088 | 145 | 4.7 |
Helpers, construction and extractive occupations trades | 111 | 5 | 4.5 |
Industrial machinery repairs | 524 | 22 | 4.2 |
Rail transportation occupations | 127 | 5 | 3.9 |
Airplane pilots and navigators | 129 | 5 | 3.9 |
Miscellaneous precision workers, n.e.c.2 | 26 | 1 | 3.8 |
Garbage collectors | 54 | 2 | 3.7 |
Construction laborers | 1,015 | 38 | 3.7 |
Firefighting and fire prevention occupations | 248 | 9 | 3.6 |
Separating, filtering and clarifying machine operators | 62 | 2 | 3.2 |
Supervisors, firefighting and fire prevention | 32 | 1 | 3.1 |
Excavating and loading machine operators | 98 | 3 | 3.1 |
Tool and die makers | 121 | 3 | 2.7 |
Construction trades, excluding supervisors | 5,153 | 138 | 2.3 |
Supervisors, construction trades | 967 | 22 | 2.3 |
Water transportation occupations | 56 | 1 | 1.8 |
Operating engineers | 253 | 4 | 1.7 |
Extractive occupations | 128 | 2 | 1.6 |
Crane and tower operators | 70 | 1 | 1.4 |
Stevedores | 14 | <1 | <1.0 |
Marine life cultivation workers | 2 | <1 | <1.0 |
Motion picture projectionists | 7 | 0 | <1.0 |
Washing, cleaning, and pickling machine operators | 8 | 0 | <1.0 |
Heat treating equipment operators | 11 | 0 | <1.0 |
1
Nontraditional occupations are those that women comprise 25 percent of less of
the total employed.
2 n.e.c. = not elsewhere
classified.
Source: U.S.
Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employed persons by detailed
occupations, Annual Averages 1999, based on Current Population Survey
(CPS).
Womens Bureau
March
2001