Care workers are disproportionately immigrant women: Breakdown of all workers, home health care workers, and child care workers by gender and citizenship status
Men | U.S.-born women | Naturalized women | Noncitizen women | |
---|---|---|---|---|
All workers | 53.1% | 39.6% | 4.0% | 3.3% |
Home health care workers | 11.4% | 62.1% | 13.9% | 12.6% |
Child care workers | 6.0% | 73.3% | 9.8% | 10.9% |
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.