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Over 16 million women worked in health care and social assistance in 2021
March 07, 2022
March is Women’s History Month, and this year’s theme is “Providing Healing, Promoting Hope.” We celebrate the amazing accomplishments of women who provide healing and hope by looking at women employed in the health care and social assistance industry.
Women employed in health care and social assistance, 2011 to 2021
Year
Total employed
Women employed
Percent of total employment that are women
2011
18,902,000
14,836,000
78.5%
2012
19,405,000
15,209,000
78.4
2013
19,562,000
15,343,000
78.4
2014
19,577,000
15,379,000
78.6
2015
20,077,000
15,752,000
78.5
2016
20,589,000
16,212,000
78.7
2017
20,720,000
16,271,000
78.5
2018
21,133,000
16,558,000
78.4
2019
21,701,000
16,959,000
78.1
2020
20,736,000
16,141,000
77.8
2021
21,204,000
16,446,000
77.6
In 2021, 16.4 million women were employed in the health care and social assistance industry. This was 77.6 percent of the total 21.2 million workers in the industry. Looking at the component industries that make up health care and social assistance, women counted for 75.0 percent of total employment (5.2 million) in hospitals, 77.4 percent of total employment (8.3 million) in health services, except hospitals, and 84.0 percent of total employment (2.6 million) in social assistance.
United States Department of Labor
