At the beginning of the decade, the Economic Council of Canada expressed concern about this trend, fearing an ever widening gap between the skilled and the unskilled. StatsCan makes this point very clearly. In general workers in high wage jobs have skills and characteristics that are hard to come by. The growth in self employment has been nothing short of phenomenal. About one Canadian in five work for themselves.
Entrepreneurs nearly outnumber the total number of people working in the public sector.
Gender differences remain stark. Women are more likely than men to be in sales and services, business, finance, administration, social science, education government, politics, art, religion, culture, health, and sports and recreation. Men are more likely than women to be in blue collar occupations, management, and the natural and applied sciences. More women are moving into management, and more men are moving into sales and service.