Dentists: an ethnically diverse profession
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- Published: Wednesday, 15 March 2017 07:37
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Britain’s most ethnically diverse jobs are taxi driver and dentist — while farmers are overwhelmingly likely to be white British. But this group accounts for less than half of taxi and cab drivers, chauffeurs and dentists, according to an analysis of the ethnic mix of occupations in England and Wales.
The findings, in a research paper by the think tank, Policy Exchange, show how ethnic minorities are heading either for low-skilled, unregulated work — or for the professions, often in areas requiring high levels of numeracy. Richard Norrie, the report’s author, said it showed which groups were most vulnerable to technological change. Almost a quarter (23.5%) of taxi and cab drivers are of Pakistani origin. Norrie said community cohesion would be threatened if, as predicted, driverless cars led to a significant loss of jobs.
Nursing and other caring professions are most reliant on those of black African descent rather than east Europeans, suggesting the effect of Brexit may be less severe than some have predicted. The police remain largely a white British preserve, with that group occupying 94.2% of posts at sergeant and below. Actors, entertainers and presenters rank 91st most diverse among 202 occupations.
People from non-white British backgrounds hold 6.8% of all chief executive and senior executive jobs, but make up just 1.5% of those who have made it to the board of FTSE 100 companies. The executives figure is short of the 19.9% of all minorities in the workforce but is closer in line with the share of non-white people (9%) who graduated from Russell Group universities in the mid-1990s, and who are now old enough to hold such senior posts.
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