02/10/2003 00:00
Staff Reporter
ONLY 26 percent of company directors and 28 percent of political figures are women, while 80 percent of part-time job contracts are taken by women.
The National Institute of Statistics has produced a paper on women and men out at work, which was included in its last edition of Social Indicators in Spain 2003. The paper suggests that the scarce presence of women in specific professional activities doesn't represent population distribution or qualifications. For example, only 34.2 percent of university teaching staff who held posts in the 1999-2000 educational year were women.
The labour market is deeply biased by the variability in type of profession, adds the study. It highlights the fact that in positions classed as active and sought after, men claim the highest percentage of contracts. Conversely, women are often registered as being qualified in categories of the labour market where there is little or no current activity. According to the research carried out by the National Institute of Statistics, most company directors are men, 73.5 percent, as against 26.4 percent of such positions held by women. Furthermore, examining statistics of professional occupation according to socio-economic conditions, is where inequality amongst the sexes is most noted. Of 19 categories analysed, women only predominated in two: lower ranks of business and administration staff and subordinate staff in public service areas. In growth rates of work activity, there are also notable differences. In the case of men, there is a stable growth rate during the last decade for all age groups, while the rates for women show rising tendencies in different degrees for all age groups, except for young people (aged between 16 and 19 and between 20 and 24) where there is a downward trend.
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