Occupation by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 69,091,443 | 53.26% | 60,630,069 | 46.74% |
Management, professional, & related occupations: | 21,708,758 | 16.73% | 21,937,973 | 16.91% |
Management, business, & financial operations: | 10,131,223 | 7.81% | 7,316,815 | 5.64% |
Management, except farm managers | 6,910,883 | 5.33% | 4,204,163 | 3.24% |
Farmers & farm managers | 661,288 | 0.51% | 111,930 | 0.09% |
Business & financial operations: | 2,559,052 | 1.97% | 3,000,722 | 2.31% |
Business operations specialists | 1,248,755 | 0.96% | 1,469,366 | 1.13% |
Financial specialists | 1,310,297 | 1.01% | 1,531,356 | 1.18% |
Professional & related occupations: | 11,577,535 | 8.92% | 14,621,158 | 11.27% |
Computer & mathematical | 2,218,400 | 1.71% | 950,047 | 0.73% |
Architecture & engineering: | 2,301,953 | 1.77% | 357,345 | 0.28% |
Architects, surveyors, cartographers, & engineers | 1,702,234 | 1.31% | 224,455 | 0.17% |
Drafters, engineering, & mapping technicians | 599,719 | 0.46% | 132,890 | 0.10% |
Life, physical, & social science | 709,392 | 0.55% | 494,051 | 0.38% |
Community & social services | 787,587 | 0.61% | 1,165,597 | 0.90% |
Legal | 747,170 | 0.58% | 665,567 | 0.51% |
Education, training, & library | 1,930,948 | 1.49% | 5,406,328 | 4.17% |
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, & media | 1,302,419 | 1.00% | 1,181,782 | 0.91% |
Healthcare practitioners & technical occupations: | 1,579,666 | 1.22% | 4,400,441 | 3.39% |
Health diagnosing, treating practitioners, & technical operations | 1,210,571 | 0.93% | 2,933,494 | 2.26% |
Health technologists & technicians | 369,095 | 0.28% | 1,466,947 | 1.13% |
Service occupations: | 8,346,408 | 6.43% | 10,930,539 | 8.43% |
Healthcare support | 305,247 | 0.24% | 2,287,568 | 1.76% |
Protective services: | 2,041,698 | 1.57% | 508,208 | 0.39% |
Fire fighting, prevention & law enforcement, including supervisors | 1,300,671 | 1.00% | 235,616 | 0.18% |
Other protective service workers, including supervisors | 741,027 | 0.57% | 272,592 | 0.21% |
Food preparation & serving related occupations | 2,663,418 | 2.05% | 3,588,200 | 2.77% |
Building & grounds cleaning & maintenance | 2,565,933 | 1.98% | 1,688,432 | 1.30% |
Personal care & service | 770,112 | 0.59% | 2,858,131 | 2.20% |
Sales & office occupations: | 12,341,968 | 9.51% | 22,279,422 | 17.17% |
Sales & related occupations | 7,364,006 | 5.68% | 7,228,693 | 5.57% |
Office & administrative support | 4,977,962 | 3.84% | 15,050,729 | 11.60% |
Farming, fishing, & forestry occupations | 750,915 | 0.58% | 200,895 | 0.15% |
Construction, extraction, & maintenance occupations: | 11,802,699 | 9.10% | 453,439 | 0.35% |
Construction & extraction: | 6,937,857 | 5.35% | 211,412 | 0.16% |
Supervisors, construction & extraction | 886,001 | 0.68% | 25,012 | 0.02% |
Construction trades | 5,933,117 | 4.57% | 182,970 | 0.14% |
Extraction | 118,739 | 0.09% | 3,430 | 0.00% |
Installation, maintenance, & repair | 4,864,842 | 3.75% | 242,027 | 0.19% |
Production, transportation, & material moving occupations: | 14,140,695 | 10.90% | 4,827,801 | 3.72% |
Production | 7,437,071 | 5.73% | 3,571,554 | 2.75% |
Transportation & material moving: | 6,703,624 | 5.17% | 1,256,247 | 0.97% |
Supervisors, transportation & material moving | 193,527 | 0.15% | 44,375 | 0.03% |
Aircraft & traffic control | 147,143 | 0.11% | 11,338 | 0.01% |
Motor vehicle operators | 3,394,798 | 2.62% | 458,022 | 0.35% |
Rail, water & other transportation | 352,303 | 0.27% | 48,523 | 0.04% |
Material moving | 2,615,853 | 2.02% | 693,989 | 0.53% |
Industry by Sex, Employed Civilian Population Age 16+, 2000 | ||||
Percent of | Percent of | |||
Male | Workforce | Female | Workforce | |
Total Employed | 69,091,443 | 53.26% | 60,630,069 | 46.74% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, & mining: | 1,986,285 | 1.53% | 439,768 | 0.34% |
Agriculture, forestry, fishing & hunting | 1,557,810 | 1.20% | 371,873 | 0.29% |
Mining | 428,475 | 0.33% | 67,895 | 0.05% |
Construction | 7,919,645 | 6.11% | 881,862 | 0.68% |
Manufacturing | 12,534,909 | 9.66% | 5,751,096 | 4.43% |
Wholesale trade | 3,260,178 | 2.51% | 1,406,579 | 1.08% |
Retail trade | 7,678,162 | 5.92% | 7,543,554 | 5.82% |
Transportation, warehousing, & utilities: | 5,025,989 | 3.87% | 1,714,113 | 1.32% |
Transportation & warehousing | 4,119,395 | 3.18% | 1,446,458 | 1.12% |
Utilities | 906,594 | 0.70% | 267,655 | 0.21% |
Information | 2,161,769 | 1.67% | 1,834,795 | 1.41% |
Finance, insurance, real estate, rental & leasing: | 3,785,972 | 2.92% | 5,149,000 | 3.97% |
Finance & insurance | 2,501,843 | 1.93% | 3,984,729 | 3.07% |
Real estate & rental & leasing | 1,284,129 | 0.99% | 1,164,271 | 0.90% |
Professional, scientific, management, administrative, & waste: | 6,697,970 | 5.16% | 5,363,895 | 4.13% |
Professional, scientific, & technical services | 4,120,499 | 3.18% | 3,476,362 | 2.68% |
Management of companies & enterprises | 31,534 | 0.02% | 38,937 | 0.03% |
Administrative & support & waste management services | 2,545,937 | 1.96% | 1,848,596 | 1.43% |
Educational, health & social services: | 6,539,753 | 5.04% | 19,303,276 | 14.88% |
Educational services | 3,509,463 | 2.71% | 7,861,743 | 6.06% |
Health care & social assistance | 3,030,290 | 2.34% | 11,441,533 | 8.82% |
Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food: | 4,929,179 | 3.80% | 5,281,116 | 4.07% |
Arts, entertainment, & recreation | 1,271,377 | 0.98% | 1,035,108 | 0.80% |
Accommodation & food services | 3,657,802 | 2.82% | 4,246,008 | 3.27% |
Other services (except public administration) | 3,174,397 | 2.45% | 3,146,235 | 2.43% |
Public administration | 3,397,235 | 2.62% | 2,814,780 | 2.17% |
Source: Census 2000 analyzed by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).
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