Female dominant occupations (2024)

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Female-dominated jobs include preschool and kindergarten teachers, nursing, or secretarial positions.

This female dominance is most pronounced in core care occupations, such as childcare, nursing and midwifery, and in sectors related to residential care (e.g., activities in nursing homes) and private households (where domestic workers are employed).

Research. There is a general consensus in managerial and sociological research that certain occupations are gendered. For example, public relations, nursing, and teaching are considered “female-gendered” occupations, whereas stock trading, engineering, and construction are considered “male-gendered” occupations.

These jobs, or 'women's work', are sometimes referred to as the 5 Cs: cleaning, catering, cashiering (retail), clerical work, and caring.

The Statista Research Department published data in October 2022, showing the employment rates of males and females worldwide since 2000. Employment rates of males have been consistently higher than women, the gap barely narrowing in the two decades.

Men continue to outnumber women in the legal industry 61.5% to 38.3%.

Gender distribution of accountants and auditors in the U.S. 2020-2023. In 2023, women made up almost 60 percent of accountants and auditors in the United States.

About 37 percent of doctors in the U.S. were women as of 2021, according to the American Medical Association.

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The History of Female Dominance in Healthcare

If you're a nurse working in a U.S. clinic or hospital, there's an 87.9% chance that your nursing colleagues are women. Female dominance in healthcare isn't just a U.S. phenomenon. The results of a 2019 survey show that female nurses dominate healthcare in every country.

While men possess their own form of EQ, women tend to demonstrate more advanced empathetic and interpersonal skills, both of which are vital to resolving intra-office disputes, managing employees, and negotiating contracts.

Despite progress toward gender equality in recent decades, most women and men still work in different occupations. For example, many care jobs are held by women while blue-collar jobs are dominated by men. This sex segregation has previously been linked to three factors.