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Women Have More Work
Opportunities, Poll Reveals
More and more businesses are
trusting the talent and capacity
of women in the work place,
including given them jobs in
"traditional" male positions.
The poll "Encuesta de Hogares"
done by the Instituto Nacional
de Estadística y Censos last
year, reflects an increase of
7.6% in the work force or
134.300 persons, over the year
2004.
The opinion poll shows that the
major increase in the work force
has been proportionally larger
for women than men. The female
work force grew at the rate
12.5% in 2005 over 2004, the
increase in the male work force
only grew 5.0% over the same
period.
The work force now is comprised
by 40.4% of women.
Of the 623.012 women who said
that they are working, 27% are
working in "unskilled" jobs,
followed by 24.2% working in
sales in retail stores, while
15% are employed at a
professional or technical level,
followed by 12% working in
administration, for example.
The private sector is a clear
example of increases in the
female labour force. For
example, Procter & Gamble Costa
Rica, with some 1.000 employees,
reports that 45% of them are
women. Private banks are another
area where more and more women
are taking jobs traditionally
reserved for men.
In recent years, more banks are
using women tellers rather than
men, as in the past. Scotiabank,
for example, is one private bank
where women tellers are the
norm, while at the Banco de
Costa Rica and Banco Nacional,
both state banks, the change is
slower.
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