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Along with the booming of feminism, female employment has
become an important issue in Taiwan. Though the enhancement of
female employment and the features of discrimination are
discussed prevalenty, research related to the service industry
are relatively scarce. This thesis is thus designed to analyze
the characteristics of Taiwan''s service industry. The intention
is to explore the evolution of female employment in the industry
from 1984 to 1994, and to detect the differences between sexes.
The data utilzed in this thesis is the Manpower Utilization
Survey of 1984 and 1994, which are conducted by the DGBAS.
Mathods of frequency analysis, means analysis and the OLS are
used. The major findings are the following: 1.There exisit
significant diffferences between the income of male and female
workers, no matter in the industrial or in the service sectors.
Additionally, the coefficient of sex on income in the OLS is
higher in 1994 than in 1984. 2.Although the proportion of
female worked in the service industry increased (1994 relative
to 1984), most female workers are still clerks, service workers,
shop workers and market sales workers. Because most female
workers'' wage are low in the service sector, the wage
differentials between male and female has not improved, though
the female workers become better educated. 3.The differences
between male and female in the average of education level, age,
and percentage of married are significant in the service
sector, but the differences decreased from 1984 to 1994.
Some suggesstions are proposed: the government should redirect
their legislative effort in improving sexual discrimination in
the workplace,enhance the female''s on-the-job training, upgrade
the female''s professional skills and knowledge, help more female
to obtain proper position, and provide comprehensive
unemployment insurance. The enterprise should diminishthe extant
prejudice against female. And the female themselves shoule be
well-prepared for their job and work hard constantly.
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