Workforce Equality for Women

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Throughout the past few decades, women in the workforce have gained equality. Many professions have seen an increase in the number of women in the workforce while other professions have not seen as much progress. Gender biased jobs have changed as well; jobs that were once known as women’s jobs now have more men working in the field and jobs that were once known as men’s jobs now have a rising number of women workers. The workforce has seen women make a lot of progress; however women still have a ways to go. Women have made a large amount of progress in higher paying jobs with high prestige. Professions such as lawyers and judges; insurance adjustors, examiners, and investigators; health administrators; and pharmacists all have seen women saturate the market. In 1972, there were 322,000 total lawyers and judges, out of which 12,236 of these were women. By 2003, there were 1,011,000 total lawyers and judges, with 294,201 being women. This is still only 29.1% of total lawyers but a major change has occurred, resulting in more equality for women. During this period of time, more than 281,965 women chose a career that had been dominated by men. Insurance adjustors, examiners, and investigators started out at a higher percentage of the workforce being women with 37,387 women out of 109,000 total workers in 1972. However, by 2003 226,575 of 265,000 insurance adjustors, examiners, and investigators were women. Women have taken over this profession. Health administrators have seen a common pattern. Women started out as 46.6% of the workforce for health administrators in 1972, but by 2003, 70.9% of health administrators were female. Pharmacists have seen great changes in women in the workforce as well. Female pharmacists only accounted for 12.7% of the workforce in 1972, yet by 2003 women accounted for 51.5%. Figure 1 shows that women have made great
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