Women's Bureau (WB) - Nontraditional Occupations for Women in 2001

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Nontraditional Occupations for Women in 2001¹ (Numbers in thousands)


Occupations	Employed	Employed	Percent
	Both Sexes	Female	Female

Textile cutting machine operators	4	1	25.0
Inspectors, agricultural products	4	1	25.0
Guards and police, excluding public service	786	189	24.0
Sales representatives in mining
manufacturing, and wholesale	1,480	351	23.7
Hand molding, casting, and forming occupation	17	4	23.5
Architects	214	50	23.4
Production helpers	57	13	22.8
Correctional institution officers	323	73	22.6
Supervisors, guard	62	14	22.6
Atmospheric and space scientists	14	3	21.4
Sheriffs, bailiffs, and other law enforcement officers	169	36	21.3
Laborers, excluding construction	1,252	265	21.2
Metal plating machine operators	19	4	21.0
Metalworking and plastic working machine operators	313	63	20.1
Drafting occupations	220	44	20.0
Dentists	170	34	20.0
Agricultural and food scientists	35	7	20.0
Supervisors, production occupations	1,076	212	19.7
Electrical and electronic technicians	475	93	19.6
Forestry and conservation scientists	26	5	19.2
Extruding and forming machine operators	32	6	18.7
Hand cutting and trimming occupations	11	2	18.2
Broadcast equipment operators	52	9	17.3
Managers, horticultural specialty farmers	247	4	16.7
Purchasing agents and buyers, farm products	12	2	16.7
Motion picture projectionists	6	1	16.7
Miscellaneous woodworking machine operators	38	6	15.8
Printing press operators	279	43	15.4
Baggage porters and bellhops	48	7	14.6
Auctioneers	7	1	14.3
Police and detectives, public service	574	81	14.1
Mixing and blending Machine operators	100	14	14.0
Freight, stock, and material handlers, n.e.c.	725	99	13.6
Vehicle washers and equipment cleaners	309	42	13.6
Sawing machine operators	59	8	13.6
Fabricating machine operators, n.e.c.	22	3	13.6
Surveying and mapping technicians	68	9	13.2
Horticultural specialty farmers	69	9	13.0
Supervisors, farm workers	39	5	12.8
Meter readers	55	7	12.7
Separating, filtering, and clarifying machine operators	55	7	12.7
Taxicab drivers and chauffeurs	305	38	12.5
Announcers	49	6	12.2
Crushing and grinding machine operators	41	5	12.2
Precision woodworking occupations	123	14	11.4
Sales workers, part	170	19	11.2
Motor transportation occupations, n.e.c.	9	1	11.1
Painting and paint spraying machine operators	173	19	11.0
Furnace, kiln, and oven operator, excluding food	57	6	10.5
Sales workers, motor vehicle and boats	329	33	10.0
Heat treating equipment operators	10	1	10.0
Supervisors, police and detective	111	11	9.9
Parking lot attendants	61	6	9.8
Fishers, hunters, and trappers	42	4	9.5
Drivers-sales workers	166	15	9.0
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers	261	23	8.8
Groundskeepers and gardeners	876	69	7.9
Forestry and logging occupations	90	7	7.8
Physicists and astronomers	26	2	7.7
Garage and service station related occupation	173	13	7.5
Helpers, Mechanics and repairers	27	2	7.4
Supervisors, related agricultural occupations	179	13	7.3
Air traffic controls	28	2	7.1
Precision metal working occupations	856	58	6.8
Stevedores	15	1	6.7
Sales engineers	31	2	6.4
Compressing and compacting machine operators	18	1	5.5
Garbage collectors	56	3	5.4
Truck drivers	3,156	167	5.3
Mechanical engineering technicians	19	1	5.3
Material moving equipment operators	1,111	54	4.9
Mechanics and repairers, excluding supervisors	4,547	214	4.7
Plant and system operators	267	12	4.5
Rail transportation occupation	112	5	4.5
Pest control occupations	66	3	4.5
Helpers, construction and extractive occupations	116	5	4.3
Airplane pilots and navigators	136	5	3.7
Welders and cutters	529	19	3.6
Construction laborers	1,024	36	3.5
Firefighter occupations	250	7	2.8
Supervisors, firefighting and fire protection	39	1	2.6
Construction trades	6,253	153	2.4
Extractive occupations	132	3	2.3
Water transportation occupation	59	1	1.7
Tool programmers, numerical control	18	<1	<1.0
Miscellaneous metal and plastic processing machine operators	23	0	0.0
Roasting and baking machine operators, food	5	0	0.0
Marine life cultivation workers	1	0	0.0

1 Nontraditional occupations are those that women comprise 25 percent or less of the total employed.
2 Not elsewhere classified.


Women's Bureau February 2002