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OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY BY RACE/ETHNIC GROUP/SEX AND BY INDUSTRY, UNITED STATES, 2006

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

OCCUPATIONAL EMPLOYMENT IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY BY RACE/ETHNIC GROUP/SEX AND BY INDUSTRY, UNITED STATES, 2006

(215694 UNITS)

Number Employed
Racial/Ethnic Group and Sex Total Employment Officials & Managers Professionals Technicians Sales Workers Office & Clerical Workers Craft Workers Operatives Laborers Service Workers
ALL EMPLOYEES 44,957,442 4,905,743 7,944,173 2,747,958 5,432,635 6,113,040 3,042,617 5,323,610 3,522,604 5,925,062
Men 23,554,712 3,159,796 3,751,789 1,433,112 2,407,281 1,295,606 2,712,801 3,965,497 2,335,268 2,493,562
Women 21,402,730 1,745,947 4,192,384 1,314,846 3,025,354 4,817,434 329,816 1,358,113 1,187,336 3,431,500
WHITE 30,430,509 4,072,917 6,149,523 1,988,711 3,817,963 4,104,170 2,224,394 3,262,512 1,712,217 3,098,102
Men 16,136,387 2,665,787 2,942,733 1,057,409 1,763,491 825,317 2,012,838 2,501,612 1,150,302 1,216,898
Women 14,294,122 1,407,130 3,206,790 931,302 2,054,472 3,278,853 211,556 760,900 561,915 1,881,204
MINORITY 14,526,933 832,826 1,794,650 759,247 1,614,672 2,008,870 818,223 2,061,098 1,810,387 2,826,960
Men 7,418,325 494,009 809,056 375,703 643,790 470,289 699,963 1,463,885 1,184,966 1,276,664
Women 7,108,608 338,817 985,594 383,544 970,882 1,538,581 118,260 597,213 625,421 1,550,296
BLACK 6,380,044 328,701 591,367 350,006 759,411 1,054,054 294,091 932,019 672,165 1,398,230
Men 2,892,045 171,366 197,257 138,108 280,552 212,576 242,292 652,131 440,974 556,789
Women 3,487,999 157,335 394,110 211,898 478,859 841,478 51,799 279,888 231,191 841,441
HISPANIC 5,535,110 276,522 359,204 216,090 604,860 661,088 414,690 879,909 985,013 1,137,734
Men 3,170,133 177,373 170,188 126,435 255,452 172,179 370,292 653,762 654,302 590,150
Women 2,364,977 99,149 189,016 89,655 349,408 488,909 44,398 226,147 330,711 547,584
ASIAN AMERICAN 2,348,483 208,160 813,091 176,901 212,516 259,375 85,080 213,137 126,834 253,389
Men 1,218,320 133,036 427,143 102,551 93,700 78,019 65,688 131,516 72,460 114,207
Women 1,130,163 75,124 385,948 74,350 118,816 181,356 19,392 81,621 54,374 139,182
AMERICAN INDIAN 263,296 19,443 30,988 16,250 37,885 34,353 24,362 36,033 26,375 37,607
Men 137,827 12,234 14,468 8,609 14,086 7,515 21,691 26,476 17,230 15,518
Women 125,469 7,209 16,520 7,641 23,799 26,838 2,671 9,557 9,145 22,089
PARTICIPATION RATE
ALL EMPLOYEES 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Men 52.4 64.4 47.2 52.2 44.3 21.2 89.2 74.5 66.3 42.1
Women 47.6 35.6 52.8 47.8 55.7 78.8 10.8 25.5 33.7 57.9
WHITE 67.7 83.0 77.4 72.4 70.3 67.1 73.1 61.3 48.6 52.3
Men 35.9 54.3 37.0 38.5 32.5 13.5 66.2 47.0 32.7 20.5
Women 31.8 28.7 40.4 33.9 37.8 53.6 7.0 14.3 16.0 31.7
MINORITY 32.3 17.0 22.6 27.6 29.7 32.9 26.9 38.7 51.4 47.7
Men 16.5 10.1 10.2 13.7 11.9 7.7 23.0 27.5 33.6 21.5
Women 15.8 6.9 12.4 14.0 17.9 25.2 3.9 11.2 17.8 26.2
BLACK 14.2 6.7 7.4 12.7 14.0 17.2 9.7 17.5 19.1 23.6
Men 6.4 3.5 2.5 5.0 5.2 3.5 8.0 12.2 12.5 9.4
Women 7.8 3.2 5.0 7.7 8.8 13.8 1.7 5.3 6.6 14.2
HISPANIC 12.3 5.6 4.5 7.9 11.1 10.8 13.6 16.5 28.0 19.2
Men 7.1 3.6 2.1 4.6 4.7 2.8 12.2 12.3 18.6 10.0
Women 5.3 2.0 2.4 3.3 6.4 8.0 1.5 4.2 9.4 9.2
ASIAN AMERICAN 5.2 4.2 10.2 6.4 3.9 4.2 2.8 4.0 3.6 4.3
Men 2.7 2.7 5.4 3.7 1.7 1.3 2.2 2.5 2.1 1.9
Women 2.5 1.5 4.9 2.7 2.2 3.0 0.6 1.5 1.5 2.3
AMERICAN INDIAN 0.6 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.6
Men 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.3 0.3 0.1 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.3
Women 0.3 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4

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