More women in Canada are graduating from universities than ever before, and now a new report is shedding light on what they do with their degrees.
According to a Statistics Canada report on occupational profiles released on Wednesday, a majority of women are still working in the areas of education and nursing, fields considered traditional "female" and numbers that show a similarity with decades past. But there are plenty of fields that had been dominated by men that are now showing an increase in women as well.
The report found more and more women were working in the medical sector as general practitioners or health policy researchers, while the number of female police officers almost doubled, to 24 per cent from 13 per cent.
In the illustration above, statistics show that some jobs requiring a degree, like human resource specialists and family physicians, saw increases, while jobs without degrees, like cooks, went down from 50 per cent to 33 per cent — numbers that could reflect the current gender war going on in the culinary world.
As Sun News reports, the top jobs for women these days are ones that stress work-life balance. Jobs in education, for example, provide set work hours, and workplaces can easily find substitutes during parental leave. Two of the top three jobs for women were kindergarten teachers and high school teachers.
While there are impressive jumps in some professions, over-qualification and gender inequality are still obstacles Canada has to overcome. For example, in the business world, women lack roles in leadership positions and only one of Canada's top 100 CEOs is a woman, according to the CBC.
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