Still few Inuit men at GN

The number of Inuit women working at the Government of Nunavut continued to dwarf the number of Inuit men last year.

A bar graph in 2004/2005 Public Service Annual Report shows that women made up about 60 per cent of the total workforce in 2004/2005. Looking at Inuit only, the numbers are slightly more skewed, with Inuit women making up about 72 per cent of the Inuit workforce.

Inuit women outnumbered men about two and a half times, with just 300 male employees compared to 800 female employees.

Cambridge Bay MLA Keith Peterson Keith Peterson made note of the trend when he commented on the department of human resource’s latest budget, on behalf of the legislature’s standing committee on government operations.

“It is disturbing that relatively few male beneficiaries are having success entering and staying in the public service,” Peterson said.
These numbers persist in spite of the fact that more men than women are applying for jobs. (The GN will report the numbers of Inuit men and women who apply for jobs for the first time next year.)