Women-held roles driving majority of healthcare job growth

Nearly 75% of the 1.8 million jobs added in healthcare and social assistance over the past two years were women-held roles, according to an Aug. 26 report from Indeed’s Hiring Lab.

Five things to know:

1. Women-held roles in healthcare and social assistance accounted for more than 38% of the 3.5 million jobs added in the U.S. between July 2023 and July 2025, according to the monthly labor market update, which analyzes data from Indeed and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

2. Women dominate many common healthcare roles, including speech language pathologists (95%), dental hygienists (94%) and medical assistants (91%), according to Indeed.

3. Women now account for 44.5% of physicians, up from 36.7% a decade ago.

4. While there has been notable job growth within healthcare, it has varied across industries. U.S. job growth in July fell to its lowest two-year rate in a decade, excluding the pandemic period.

5. Post-pandemic monthly job growth typically exceeded 100,000. In the past three months, estimated monthly job growth averaged 35,000.

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