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Factsheet RV-FS#03, Series of 2007 Did you know that . . . working women in the Bicol Region have higher educational attainment?
Close to two-thirds (63.7 percent) of employed persons in the Bicol Region were men. While more men were employed, more employed women have higher educational attainment. Results of the January 2007 run of the Labor Force Survey (LFS) conducted by the National Statistics Office (NSO) show that six out ten college graduate/level workers were women. Comparatively, 15.5 percent of the 709 thousand employed women were college graduates while only 6.4 percent of the 1,244 thousand employed men have the same educational attainment. The disparity in educational attainment between men and women workers showed in the distribution of employed persons across occupation groups and across industries. Six out of ten employed persons, as officials of the government and special interest organization, corporate executives, managers, managing proprietors and supervisors, were women. The same proportion is seen in the professional group. Employed men who worked as professionals comprised only 1.1 percent of total employed men compared to the 3.7 percent of employed women. Meanwhile, 63 percent of laborers and unskilled workers were men. Across industries, more than four of every ten employed men belong to the agriculture and allied industries while almost a third of the women workers belonged to the wholesale and retail trade group. In terms of class of worker, the biggest percentage of employed men (40 percent) and women (37.8 percent) were self-employed. Both employed men and women have the least percentage of those who worked as employers themselves, with the employed men having 3.1 percent while their female counterparts have 1.6 percent. Age-wise, a fourth of men workers were in the 25-34 years age bracket while more employed women (24.3 percent) were in the 35-44 years age group. Even as both employed men and women 65 years old and over have the least number of workers, the percentage of women employed in this age bracket is greater (6.2 percent) than the percentage of employed men (5.0 percent). |
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… and women work longer hours?
On the average, women workers in the Bicol Region worked longer hours compared to their men counterparts. The mean number of hours worked by employed women was estimated at 37.2 hours per week against 36.1 for employed men. Women employed as officials of government, special interest organizations, corporations, executives, managers, managing proprietors, and supervisors worked the longest at 59.8 hours per week. On the other hand, working men in the special occupations group worked the longest at 57.4 hours per week. Those employed under the special occupations group include members of the Armed Forces (officers and listed), those with non-gainful occupations, students/dependents, retirees, pensioners or disabled, housekeeper of own home, other occupations not classifiable like new workers seeking employment, experienced workers seeking re-employment, workers reporting occupations unidentifiable or inadequately defined, and, workers not reporting any occupation. Farmers, forestry workers and fishermen worked the least number of hours per week with employed men working an average of 32.4 hours and women, an average of 17.6 hours. In terms of major industry, men working in private households with employed persons worked the longest at 51.5 hours per week on the average while women employed in real estate, renting and business activities worked the longest at an average of 55.3 hours per week. Men in the agriculture, hunting and forestry industry group worked the least at an average of 31.1 hours per week while women in the fishing industry worked the least at 17.8 hours per week. No matter what the above similarities and contrasts demonstrate, they all show increasing presence of women in the workplace. In addition, the data also show that women are gradually getting into industries and occupations once dominated by men. Considering the changing patterns in the roles of women and men, these changes are also reflected in their employment characteristics. Source of basic data: Labor Force Survey, National Statistics Office Date posted: September 24, 2007 |
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