The division of employment per sector shows that the supply of labour has especially increased in the services sector, which is a sector with a relatively high degree of female workers.
Many new jobs are part-time jobs.
Notice that Census data are based upon the number of people with an employment, whereas social security databases are based upon the number of jobs. Very often, male jobs and female jobs are of a different kind. This monography gives answers to these questions, using a classification of the degree of feminisation of sectors and professions by decile and four segregation indices. The segregation indices by region show that segregation is stronger in Flanders and Wallonia than in Brussels. Moreover, the decrease in sectoral segregation between 1981 and 1991 was stronger in Brussels and Flanders than in Wallonia.