وتتركز العمالة المتكسبة للمرأة إلى حد بعيد في الميادين الاقتصادية ذات المستويات المتدنية من الكسب وفي المؤسسات الصغيرة أو المتوسطة الحجم حيث تكسب المرأة أقل في المتوسط.
Roughly 97% of agricultural businesses in Germany were one-person businesses in 1999, the overwhelming majority of which were operated as family businesses. 12.5% of the full-time family workers were female, whilst 45.6% of part-time family workers were female.