Facts on Working Women. Women of Hispanic Origin in the Labor Force

摘要

Women of Hispanic origin are one of the fastest growing population groups in thenation. In 1986, here were 6.2 million Hispanic women age 16 years and over in the United States. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has projected that the female Hispanic labor force should grow from 4.8 million in 1994 to about 6.9 million in 2005 and that their labor force participation rate will be 53.6 percent. This 43 percent increase will be the greatest among all other groups of women or men, excluding Asian and Pacific Islander women, whose percentage increase will be about 45 percent. The number of Hispanic women outside the labor force has been increasing steadily over the past decade at a rate of about 137,000 women per year. Even though slightly more than half--5.1 million out of 9.6 million--Hispanic women were either working or looking for work in 1996, a very large number--4.5 million were not in the labor force.