Employment Trends

Four Facts on Women Workers:

Women account for 46% of the total national labor workforce in 1995.

Within 1995, women represented 42.9% of the federal workforce  (excluding postal services).

The ratio of women's median weekly earnings to men's in 1995 was 75.5%.

Employment and earning rates rise with educational attainment for both men and women but earnings are on an average 27.6% lower for women with various levels of college courses than for males with the same education.

How Are We Doing?

The NRCS employs approximately 11,000 permanent employees of which 72.5% (8,082) are males and 27.5% (3,061) are females. The Professional, Administrative, Technical, Clerical, and Other (PATCO) distributions follow:

Source: DN-714 Report as of March 13, 1999

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