Employment Total Total Total female contribution (%) Gender 100.0 Male Female 100.0 100.0 34.9 Management services, legal drafting 6.1 7.0 4.6 25.9 Various employments 6.5 3.4 12.3 65.8 Technical services 6.0 6.3 5.6 32.3 Clerical 4.0 2.9 5.9 51.8 10.9 11.5 9.8 31.3 18.6 18.9 18.0 33.8 16.2 16.3 15.8 34.2 8.6 11.3 3.5 14.3 22.6 21.6 24.3 37.7 0.5 0.7 0.2 12.6 Sale Assistants Agriculture and fishery related employments Handicrafts Estates Initial employment Forces Source: Labour Force Survey in Sri Lanka- Annual Report -2015 (Department of Census and Statistics) In the context of un-employment level as at Second Quarter -2017, it amounts to 380,594 on the whole. According to computed data, unemployment in the first quarter of 2017 amounts to 4.5%. In the context of unemployment populace in the second quarter of 2017, females amount to 7.1 % while males are at 3.0%. Unemployed younger population as at second quarter-2017 is 20.0%. According to available data, unemployed female population is comparatively larger than the unemployed male population. As such, following data indicate the fact that younger unemployed female population accounts for a lion’s share in the unemployed female population. 36 36