The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reports job pattern information for women and minorities in 2007, which for the first time includes State of Hawaii information. Due to Hawaii’s “unique racial and ethnic composition,” employment data for establishments had been excluded from all aggregates of EEO-1 data prior to 2007, EEOC says.

EEOC requires periodic reports from public and private employers, and unions and labor organizations which indicate the composition of their work forces by sex and by race/ethnic category. The EEO-1 report, the basis of the job pattern information, is collected annually from private employers with 100 or more employees or federal contractors with 50 more employees. In 2007, over 67,800 employers with more than 61.3 million employees filed EEO-1 reports.

According to the 2007 report: Compared to their male counterparts, women had a higher concentration in industries such as Health Care and Social Assistance (79.2 percent), Educational Services (63.5 percent), and Finance and Insurance (60.4 percent). They also had a higher percentage in one of the ten occupational groups measured in the EE0-1 survey: Over 3-in-4 or 79.0 percent of the Office & Clerical Workers job categories were women in 2007.

In 2007, women accounted for over half of the total Professional positions in the private sector at 52.8 percent. They made up 28 percent of the total Executive/Senior Level Official and Managerial positions and 39 percent of the total First/Mid Level Official and Managerial positions in the EEO-1 survey.