Geography Reference
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Figure 5.15
Territory size shows the proportion of male industrial workers worldwide living there
(Worldmapper Map 130)
Text Box 5.14: Industrial Men
In total 519 million men work in industry. Industry here means manufacturing, the
production of tangible goods. A third of the men that do industrial jobs live in Eastern
Asia, the majority being in China. As a proportion of the population, the most industrial
men live in the Eastern European territories of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
The territory with the smallest proportion of the population being men that work
in industry is Bangladesh. Most of the territories with very low proportions of the
population that are men working in industry are located either in parts of Southern
Asia or in the Middle East.
They earn about $2,400 a year - nearly five times the average per capita
income . . . Rajesh Kumar Raghavji Santoki, 28, was earning more than $500
a month, and owned a house, a motorcycle and van
(Amy Waldman, 2005)
5.2.14 Industrial women
There are fewer women than men who work in industry; in 2002, 188 million women
worked in this sector. Women working in industry made up 3 per cent of the entire world
population - if we assume that half the population is male, then 6 per cent of all women were
working in industry. Six per cent might sound small, until put into the context of the many
other possibilities that people have throughout their lives: studying (at school or university),
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