Chart: Care workers are disproportionately women: Gender breakdown of all workers, home health care workers, and child care workers

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Care workers are disproportionately women: Gender breakdown of all workers, home health care workers, and child care workers

	Men	Women
All workers	53.1%	46.9%

Home health care workers	11.4%	88.6%
Child care workers	6.0%	94.0%

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Note: To ensure sufficient sample sizes, this figure draws from pooled 2018–2020 microdata.

Source: Economic Policy Institute (EPI) analysis of Current Population Survey basic monthly microdata, EPI Current Population Survey Extracts, Version 1.0.18 (2021), https://microdata.epi.org.

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