ABSTRACT
The growth in the labour force in Denmark since the Second World War is primarily the result of women’s growing labour market participation. Women’s activity rates have increased rapidly as men’s have decreased, and as a result women accounted for 46 per cent of the Danish labour force in 1995. At the same time Denmark has experienced a shift between sectors. Employment in the primary sector, mainly agriculture, has been falling rapidly, while employment in the private and the public service sector rose until the early 1980s, only to remain static throughout the late 1980s and 1990s. The service sector accounted for 83 per cent of women’s employment in Denmark in 1995 (Eurostat 1996c).
