From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ixn5c!pcl
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: Few women in engineering, but number is growing
Article-I.D.: ixn5c.508
Posted: Thu Nov 18 16:39:00 1982
Received: Sat Nov 20 05:13:03 1982


The November 16th Chicago Tribune reports on a new study by the U.S.
Dept. of Labor of the gender ratio in various occupations.

Some highlights:
	- There are 6 major job categories in which women have become
	the majority in the last decade.  Those categories are insurance
	adjusters, examiners and investigators; bill collectors; real
	estate agents and brokers; photographic process workers;
	checkers, examiners and inspectors; and production-line
	assemblers.
	
	- The increases in some other categories have been dramatic:
	
				1971		1981
				____		____
	Lawyers & judges	 4%		14%
	physicians		 9%		22%
	
	- The most dramatic increase was for engineers:
	
				 1%		 4%
	
	That's a 300% inrease!  (Now, guys, don't you feel better?)
	They go on to note, however, that "there are fewer women in
	engineering than in any other profession or job category.  The
	next smallest category is delivery and route workers, a category
	in which women account for 9% of the total."


			Happy that I found one of the 4%,

				Paul Lustgarten
				Bell Labs - Indian Hill