A couple friends of mine change industries. One went back to college and is now a kindergarten teacher and he told me that lots of people are shocked that there are male teachers as the see men are more of a principle. One went from marketing to architecture and she told me that people think that is the receptionist. This got me thinking. The industries that you work in are the more male dominated or female dominated and do you see change in the futre where more women or men can come in and the industry will become more mixed gender?
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I also work in education and over the years across multiple schools in the US and Asia I’ve seen a healthy mix of male and female teachers, especially in secondary ed. My impression is that there are generally more female teachers in primary ed or preschool.
Unrelated but I hate your username.
Im a boilermaker.
Im 31 now, have been doing it for 15 years.
Has always been male dominated.
There’s more female apprentices coming through than ever before.
The Australian government has been subsidising employers to take on female apprentices.
I’ve met a couple girls now who pull their weight and want to make an impact and I’ve got the utmost respect for them.
But I’ve also met a similar amount who expect us guys to do their heavy lifting and expect to flirt their way through the hard yards.
Also gender pay gap is BS.
A female boilermaker makes the same as a male boilermaker where im from.
Printing industry. Mixed, totally depends on what part of it to look at. Most of the office, preparing and after work is female dominated, while the printing itself is male dominated, excluding digital printing that’s female dominated.
So in overall it’s mixed.
Science and engineering I the UK. Engineering is mostly women in our place but overall a slightly higher number of women than men in the mixed sciences company.
Currently in digital marketing. Probably as close to 50/50 as you can get. Maybe more women depending on the specific tye of advertising you do, but I see wat more men working in this than I anticipated
Truck driver. Definitely male dominated industry.
Recruitment. It’s very mixed.
Software development- and while I’m fairly new, there seems to be an odd mix from what I see/hear. I’d say men and women are pretty equal, but men hold way more leadership positions. It’s rampant with boys clubs and sexism.
I think a lot of it stems from coding jobs having an issue with crunch and exploitation in general. Everyone gets screwed and bled dry, but women make for especially easy/”appealing” targets in the industry, so they catch the worst of it.
Construction. Definitely make dominated.
Software engineer.
More men.
There will be more women cause there’s a push for it… But honestly, I don’t really see what women find interesting about programming. It’s really just some nerd shit (like actual nerd shit, not I’m into marvel comics nerd shit) that somehow became super important. And I don’t really think it’s all that appealing to women (and a lot of men) aside from money and status
Teaching . More women than men.
I was a nurse until recently and the ratios were about 1:11 men to women.
Culinary…
The small fry like me are mixed gender however majority of the chefs are male but not only a long shot
Metal polishing and like all physically demanding jobs it’s male dominated
Programmer.
One woman in my university group (out of ~25 people), and in three companies that I worked for since graduation, maybe 6-7 women, and while I don’t know what two of them did the rest weren’t doing the actual programming – one designer, two HR, one branch manager (company branch, not code branch).
I sell fertilizers.
Law. Male dominated but seeing some change.
I’m an archaeologist.
In college the student body skewed pretty heavily towards women, to the point that undergrad volunteer field programs might have like a dozen participants and only 2-3 of them would be men.
In the actual workforce it seems to be a bit more balanced
Right now I’m a server at waffle house. It’s very female dominated. All the men are cooks. I plan on getting into the trades though. Looking at HVAC. And obviously the trades are male dominated.
Forestry. Its more male oriented but we have female colleagues
finance and it is definitely woman dominated now. I am the only guy in my entire department and there is maybe 15-20 guys out of 160 total employees.
I work in the steel industry. It’s male dominated obviously but all the big players are very serious about inclusion (pressure from stock holders). If you are in any of the “good” token groups you can get into the industry or advance your career much easier.
Civil engineer. There are lots of female engineers out there but the majority is still male. I’d guess about 60-40%
Construction workers I’d guess are 99.99% male, never seen a female construction worker in the 10yrs I’ve worked in this field.
Im in the trucking side of the oilfield. There are a handful of women in this already and I know there will be more. My particular job is physically demanding so as long as she cant throw hoses around all day, I have no problem whatsoever.
Roadworker atm.
I’ve seen one person out of 100 who was a woman (and damn she was a cutie to).
Sure there’s women in the company (in nice, cushy air conditioned offices), but actually out on the roads? Yeah, one.
Dont see feminists screeching for more female road workers though.
Design.
Heavily skewed towards women. Our company is 65/35. The women still have meetups and initiatives to empower each other and complain about how oppressed they are of course, even though on average they’re paid more than the men.
I’m in mental health. I’m usually the only man. I’m not positive whether that’s due to the bad pay relative to training or that men are not socialized to be helpful and understanding but it’s overwhelming women.
I was in the Automotive repair business for a while. Our workshop was always male. We had some female apprentices but none stuck around for long. Our parts department and front desk was mostly female and the administration was quite mixed.
Any of the skilled trades Male dominated
S.T.E.M. related ones. Male dominated
High paying dangerous jobs Male dominated
Restaurant, retail and hospitality. Female dominated
Will there ever be a more balanced mix? Hard to say. As far as the skilled trades probably not. While there are more women in it now in general this just doesn’t seem to attract women even though they can pay as much or more than white collar jobs.
As far as the sciences the behavioral sciences seem to be more female dominated. I don’t see that ever changing.
When it comes to STEM in general I more women will become involved but it will stay Male dominated because of lack of interest from women.
I work for a company that makes and services mail inserting machines for large mailing operations like insurance companies, banks, government agencies, service providers, etc. The technicians who work for our company and provide the site-level support are almost all men, while the actual operations folks on the customer side are evenly divided between men and women. At our company, I am probably one of the few people with a college degree who is not an executive– I work with software that interacts with the machines as a manager and a developer. I have no desire to be part of senior management, which is all male except for our head of HR.
Whilst I work in a IT company, the women are all in the offices, whilst the men are occupying the warehouses.
Im a wallstreet analyst. I am 27, been trading since I was 12 and got recruited by Berkshire Hathaway at 22. Currently, I work directly under Bob Price (CIO) at Bridgewater Associates (Hedge Fund). At BA, it was actually a fairly balanced environment. Although, when you are trying to convince people to let you invest their money, any positive points are necessary. To huge companies looking to give you their money, you cannot reflect them in a bad light. Modern wall street is nothing like “Wolf Of Wall Street”. Sure, assistants generally speaking are females, but so are some of the Sr. Analysts. The ratio where I work is 6:4 men:women. Last year a co-worker (we will call her Anna) got a nearly 8 figure bonus. Not only was her performance twice that of mine, so was that bonus. That is not an uncommon occurrence either. Some of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met were female co workers I’ve met throughout the years.
The industry in terms of employment is insanely competitive, hence, if you are bright enough to make people a shit ton of money, gender does not matter.
I’m in network engineering. When I was in school, it was super male-dominated, but I work with a lot of women now. I think there’s still a disparity, but it’s lesser.
I’m in engineering, it’s heavily male dominated, there are some women. I think we have 4 women in an engineering department of around 40 people.
Engineer: basically it’s 100% I think there’s like one girl but really I never get to see her so I don’t know if she exists
fine metalworking
its like 70% women because theres a lot of female goldsmiths
silversmiths seems about 50 50. though fulltime silversmiths tend to be mostly male.
watchmakers lean to the men, but only slightly