Females Top Table Of Military Recruits -

STATISTICS of employment generation by
the Federal Government in the public sector
indicates that more females have continued
to break gender barriers in the Nigerian
Armed Forces with a total of 537 females
clinching commissioned Army officers’ slot
in the 4th Quarter of 2012, over and above
their male counterpart, fresh data by the
National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows.
According to a breakdown of figures, 526
male officers were commissioned into
various ranks within the same period under
review, indicating a softening of the
prejudice against female gender in the
military circle.
The figures, released by the NBS, showed a
marked improvement in the number of
females who have been able to scale the
ladder to become commissioned officers of
the male-dominated military.
Further breakdown of the table showed
that 152,018 jobs were created in the
formal sector in the 4th Quarter of 2012,
while a total of 174,326 jobs were created
in the 1st Quarter of 2013.
In the informal sector, an average of
208,920 jobs were created in the 4th
Quarter of 2012, whereas 232,327 jobs were
made available by government in the 1st
Quarter of 2013. However, in the 4th
Quarter of 2012, the public sector witnessed
the creation of only 24,975 jobs, whereas in
the 1st Quarter of 2013, the number
dropped slightly with just about 24,368
jobs being created.
In the same vein, the table of job creation
for the 1st Quarter of 2012, when
aggregated by gender in the formal sector,
showed that the female gender also
dominated the financial intermediation
sector, as well as in the hotels and
restaurants subsector of the tourism
industry.
A total of 18,872 jobs were secured by male
employees in the financial intermediation
sector within the 1st Quarter of 2013,
whereas the females got 19,555 job
placements within the same period under
review. But 369 males got part-time jobs in
the sector representing 49.03 per cent,
while 445 females got more jobs within the
same sector, representing 50.97 per cent.
However, the male folk dominated the top
management seats in the public sector with
690 men occupying managing director/
chief executive positions, while the females
trailed behind with 491 in that category.
In the hotels and restaurants subsector,
1,648 males got full-time job placements in
the 1st Quarter of 2013 while 1,900 females
got full-time jobs in the same sector within
the same period.
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