The bar chart below shows the number of employed persons by job type and sex for Australia last year

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

last

year. There were significantly more

men

than

women

in management,

production

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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

men

.

However

, the gap was largest in trade occupations with

men

ten times more likely to be doing

this

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

men

than

women

. The only sectors in which there were more

women

than

men

were

in

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

women

in each respectively.

However

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

men

who were employed in these areas.

Overall

, we can see that there are more

men

than

women

in nearly every sector and even

those

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with a female majority the figures were close.

This

means that

men

make up a disproportionate amount of the Australian workforce.