You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. 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.

You should spend about 20 minutes on this task.

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
the
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information on
Australian's
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Australia's
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employment situation
last
year. The data is broken down into different genders and
job
types
.
Overall
,
men
dominant
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the employment in majority
job
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of job
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types
while
more
women
were employed in clerical and
professionals
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professional
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jobs. It is evident when looking at the bar chart that
men
in Australia had greater
job
opportunities than
women
. Out of seven
job
types
, five jobs hired more
men
than
women
last
year. In
tradespeople
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the tradespeople
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sector
, the highest number of Australian
men
were employed, at 900,000, 8 times more than
women
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the women
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workforce. At the same time, the number of
men
worked
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working
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in
production
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the production
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and managers
sector
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sectors
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were
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was
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4.5 and 2 times, respectively, more than
women
.
Others
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In other
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sectors,
such
as semi-professionals and labourers,
women
's employment was only one-third of
men
's. Interestingly, the
sector
with
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second largest
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amount of male workforce (almost 900,000), the clerical
sector
, had more
women
working than
men
. The statistic shows that there were
less
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fewer
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Australian
women
working in the majority of
job
types
, with no more than 400,000 female workforce.
However
, in
professionals
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the professionals
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and clerical
sector
, the chances of hiring
female
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females
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were over
male's
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males
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, with approximately 100,000 (the former) and 50,000 (the latter) more
women
were
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hired than
men
in these areas.
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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "last".
Vocabulary: Replace the words job, types, men, women, sector with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "chart" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "number of" was used 2 times.

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • employed persons
  • job type
  • sex
  • employment figures
  • gender distribution
  • full-time
  • part-time
  • casual
  • professionals
  • managers
  • technicians
  • service workers
  • clerical staff
  • laborers
  • skilled trades
  • predominantly
  • discrepancy
  • proportionally
  • sectors
  • industries
  • dominance
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