MALAYSIA: PERCENTAGE WORKING WOMEN

By RHODA HATEMICHAEL

General Characteristics of Agricultural, Industrial, and Information Age

• Agricultural Age: both men and women worked on the land, keeping the family together

• Industrial Age: prestigious for middle and upper classmen in west if their wives din not work vs. lower class where women had to work to help support their families. In contrast, ideology on socialist countries promoted women's equality in which they worked with men

• Information Age: incresing percentage of women working, including married of single for economic or personal reasons. Women also have less children

Information/Data on Percentage of Working Women in Malaysia had increased from 42.2% in 1980 to 46.1% in 1993. Hwoever, the percentage of working women still lags behind from the percentage of men (87% in 1993)

Conclusions on Malaysia (Whether Primarily Agricultural, Industrial, or Information Age Re: Percentage of Women Working): agricultural and industrial, there are women still working in the agricultural sector, a bigger share of women are employed by the manifacturing sector (30.8%). The same trend was regestered for emplayment in the wholesale, retail, ect.

Additional Online Sources on Percentage of Women Working in Canada

• Social Trends

Traditional Bibliographic Sources on Percentage of Women Working

• CULTURGRAM 1996.