WP 92 - An overview of women's work and employment in Azerbaijan

M. van Klaveren, K.G. Tijdens, M. Hughie-Williams and N.E. Ramos Martin

2.6.3. Women’s labour market share

In Table 5 we present the division of the Azerbaijan labour force by industry and gender, for the labour
force at large.⁸ The table shows that still a considerable part of the Azerbaijani labour force is in agriculture:
40% of the females, 37% of the males. For both sexes, wholesale and retail trade is the second largest em-
ployer, though for females this industry is, with 22%, more important than for males, with 10.5% employed
in wholesale and retail. For women, education comes third (11.6%), followed by health and social work
(6.5%) and manufacturing (4.6%). The share of manufacturing in employment is still quite low, which is also
the case for men (5.2%). In 2008, 28% of the female labour force was employed in commercial services, of
which three of four in wholesale and retail (22%).

Table 5. Employment by industry and gender, total labour force, Azerbaijan, 2008

all                 male               female

Source: ILO Laborsta, Table 2B

Table 6 (next page) presents an overview of the female employment shares by industry for the labour
force at large. Five of the 15 industries show a female share above average. With over 72%, this majority is
largest in health and social work, followed by wholesale and retail (68%); education (67%); restaurants and
hotels (52%), and agriculture (51%). The female share in manufacturing (46%) is in international perspective

8 We could also construct a table for the division by industry and gender for employees alone, based on ILO Laborsta, Table
2E, but this table contained unexplainable differences with our Table 5. For some industries, like finance, the number of em-
ployees derived from the ILO statistics was larger than their total labour force, whereas for others the number of employees
was obviously too small to be taken into consideration, for example in public administration, where for 2008 the number of
employees was less than 25% of the total labour force. Therefore, we left out such a table, and we have used only total labour
force data to construct the female employment shares by industry (Table 6).

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