In the U.S. Hispanic Labor Force, Women Surpass Men in Multiple Ways

Specifically, IPUMS USA uses the 1950 Census Bureau occupational classification, aggregating three-digit occupations into the following nine broad groups, ordered by their skill intensity:3 professional and technical workers; managers, officials and proprietors; sales workers; clerical and kindred; craftsmen; service workers; operatives; farmers and farm laborers; and unskilled laborers.4 Figure 2 shows the share of female and male Hispanic workers across these occupations, comparing the years 1960, 1980 and 2016. First of all, notice that there are important differences between the genders that are sustained over time. 3 Skill intensity is measured by the percentage of workers in an occupation with the highest year of school degree completed in 1950 being college or more. [...]the higher the percentage of workers in an occupation with at least a college degree in 1950, the more skill-intensive an occupation is.