In the third quarter of 2022, in the EU, the majority of employed people aged 15-64 years were men (54% men compared with 46% women), while women were the majority in particular categories and occupations, such as office support, cleaning and child care, according to data published by Eurostat, the statistical service of the EU.
The categories where women were a majority (according to the classification methodology used by the International Labour Organization), were clerical support workers (66% of total people employed aged 15-64 in this occupation), service and sales workers (63%), professionals e.g. scientists, teachers (54%) and elementary occupations (53%).
At the other end of the scale, women made up less than a fifth of people employed as craft and related trades workers (11%) and plant and machine operators and assemblers (19%).
On a more detailed level, women in the EU made up the vast majority of employed people among childcare workers and teachers’ aides (93% of total people employed in this occupation in Q3 2022), nursing and midwifery professionals (89%) and primary school and early childhood teachers (88%). Also, about 90% of workers in secretarial positions and as domestic, hotel, office cleaners and helpers were women.
Meanwhile, women were a small minority among building frame and related trades workers (1%), machinery mechanics and repairers, and electrical equipment installers and repairers (both 3%). The percentages of women working as sheet and structural metal workers, moulders and welders and related workers, as well as heavy truck and bus drivers were also similarly low.
Source Cyprus News Agency