Women in the workforce

Women in the Work Force During the past three or four decades there has been a dramatic increase of women participating in the work force from countries all over the world including Canada. In 1950, a one in five Canadian worker was a woman. By 1980 this percentage had doubled (Please see Graph on page 5), and women are expected to make up more than 44% of the work force by the year two thousand. The increase in female …

…can be difficult to measure the value of one person's work compared to another persons. We could also offer women better benefits and a better pension when they retire from their job. Slowly people's attitudes towards women in the work force are starting to change and more opportunities for women are being available for them. The unequal treatment of working women will take some time to change, but it will surely remain an important issue.