Excerpt from executive summary: This report provides annual updates to the data presented the labour force chapter in the Statistics Canada publication Women in Canada 2000 (catalogue no. 89-503-XPE) which documents the major changes in the evolving status of women in Canada. Topics covered in this report include trends in employment, shifts in the occupational distribution of women, part-time work, self-employment and unemployment rates, employment among women with children, female lone parents, and more.