Release Date :
Reference Number :
2009-03
Women outnumbered men service workers
Based on 2005 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry (ASPBI), women workers in the service sector registered an increase of 14.1 percent to 684,317 from 599,732 in 2003. For the past two surveys (2003 and 2005), women workers outnumbered men workers in the service sectors except in other community, social and personal service activities (Table 1).
Hotels and restaurants establishments remained the top employer among service sectors hiring more women workers for the past survey rounds (Figure 1).
Private Education Establishments Employed Higher Average Women Workers
In both surveys of 2003 and 2005 average women worker per establishment in the service sectors stood at 4. Private education sector garnered the highest average women worker among the service sectors in 2003 and 2005 with 18 and 16 women per establishment, respectively (Figure 3).
Majority of women service workers were engaged in hotels and restaurants
In 2005, majority (46.3%) of the 684,317 women workers in the service sector were employed in hotels and restaurants establishments, while the least (12.0%) were engaged in other community, social and personal service activities (Figure 2).
Of the 316,802 women workers in the hotels and restaurants sector, 92.9 percent were employed in restaurants, bars, canteens and other eating and drinking places, and the remaining 7.1 percent were in hotels, camping sites and other provisions of short-stay accommodation services (Table 2).
Technical Notes:
Services sectors – covers only the four industry major divisions as defined in the 1994 Philippine Standard Industrial Classification (PSIC), namely: Hotels and Restaurants, Education, Health and Social Work, and Other Community ,Social and Personal Service Activities
