Canada Hit Female Employment Milestone 2 Years Ago
Nobody seemed to notice, but there were more women than men working there in 2007
- Canada not only is the first country to officially stake the claim of being the first modern economy with more women working than men, but it turns out that milestone was reached in 2007, more than two years before anyone was even expecting such a shift to occur.
- Statistics Canada, after confirming the discovery that more women than men were working in the first half of 2009, went back and looked at its records … and found that women outnumbered men at least twice earlier in the country’s workforce.
- The first time the historic shift took place was in February-April 2007, when there were 0.5% more women, and then again in January-April 2008, by a 1.2% margin, The Canadian Press reported.
- The 2009 difference, which was evident in both young adults and those over age 25, was a significant 3.2%.
- It’s not all good news, as the original report here made clear — it is more men’s losses than women’s gains that have led to the change. But the milestone is the culmination of decades of rising female employment and, less successfully, the opening of doors and increasing equality in the workplace.
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