February 14, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Women's share of labor force to edge higher by 2008
Overall labor force
participation rates will continue to rise among women and edge down among
men between 1998 and 2008. As a result, women’s labor force growth
should be faster than men’s—about half again as fast, in fact.
![Shares of the labor force by sex, 1988-2008](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20120924202919im_/http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/images/2000/Feb/wk3/art01.gif) [Chart data—TXT]
As more women are added to the labor force, their share will approach
that of men. In 2008, women will make up about 48 percent of the labor
force and men 52 percent. In 1988, the respective shares were 45 and 55
percent.
These data are a product of the Employment
Projections program. Find out more
in "Labor Force," (PDF
105K) Occupational Outlook Quarterly Winter 1999/2000.
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