Another update to material that is presented in the women and politics text I'm currently revising. For some reason this was more than a pain to do than I thought it would be. The major problem is how parliamentarians report their previous occupations varies quite a bit from how Statistics Canada categorizes occupations in Canada. This required a fair amount of interpretation of where the MPs' self-description would fit in the statistical categories. The second problem is that the categories are remarkably broad, for example the business, finance and administration occupations run a range from bank tellers and clerical administration to bank owners and finance capitalists. It is interesting to note that as a whole this category in Canada as a whole skews towards women's participation, possibly a testimony to the feminization of the FIRE industries, i.e., Finance, Insurance and Real Estate. What the chart does indicate is how MP's both male and female are drawn from pro...
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