CHAPTER XI 
OCCUPATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION 
OCCUPATIONS OF THE POPULATION BY SEX AND BIRTHPLACE 
The census tabulates the employed males and females by occupation and nativity, and 
Table 196 shows the numbers and percentages classified as of Canadian, British, United 
States, European and Asiatic birth in certain principal occupations of Canada. Table 127 
shows the percentages of the males separately, and Table 128 those of the females. 
In 1921, there were well over five times as many employed males as females in Canada. 
The number of Canadian born females employed in gainful occupations outside the home 
was a little larger than one-fifth the number of men, while the number of United States 
and European born women in business formed a very much smaller proportion of the 
total occupied men employed in the same nativity groups. The reason for the difference 
is threefold: first, there is a much larger proportion of men in the United States and 
European born population in Canada than in the Canadian born; secondly, a larger percent- 
age of the European born women marry; and thirdly, the largest proportion of our 
agricultural settlers come from Europe and the United States, and a great many of these 
women work at home on the farm, while if the family lived in the city, many would take 
smployment outside the home and appear in the census return as employed women. As it 
is, they are not listed as “occupied” in the census. 
The number of British born females employed is also small as compared with the 
number of British born males, but while the proportion is smaller than that for the 
Canadian born it is not so small relatively as that of the United States or European 
born employed women. Inequality of the sexes and a higher marriage rate account for 
the proportion being smaller than in the case of the Canadian born. The percentage of 
British born women married, however, though greater than that of the Canadian born, 
was smaller than the proportion among those of European birth. When one couples with 
this circumstance the fact that British immigration has shown a very small proportion 
settling on the land, it is only to be expected that the ratio of gainfully occupied British 
women, when compared with the male immigrants from Britain, should be greater than 
abtaing in the case of the European and United. States born. 
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