The bar chart below shows the number of employed persons by job type and sex for Australia last year Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart gives demographic information for employment sectors and gender in Australia

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year. There were significantly more

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than

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in management,

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and production

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- over 400,00 in each case and 800,000 more for tradesperson roles. When looking at management roles proportionally, they were three times more likely to be filled by

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.

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, the gap was largest in trade occupations with

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ten times more likely to be doing

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kind of work. There was a less sizeable difference for labourers and semi-professionals but still considerably more

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than

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. The only sectors in which there were more

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than

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were

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those of professionals and clerical, with 50,000 and 100,00 more

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in each respectively.

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, when looking at the figures you can see that there were still a high number of

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who were employed in these areas.

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, we can see that there are more

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than

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in nearly every sector and even

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in those

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with a female majority the figures were close.

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means that

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make up a disproportionate amount of the Australian workforce.