The bar chart demonstrates the proportions of male and female managers in six different occupations among British people in 2007.
Overall, it is clear that teaching and therapists roles were heavily dominated by female executives. In stark contrast, male executives constituted the vast majority in construction role. Additionally, the proportion of managers in journalism was perfectly balanced between two genders.
Looking at the details in regards to female-dominated sectors, teaching and therapists emerged as the two primary sectors with the highest female representations. Regarding proportion of teaching, female and male managers were 90% and 10% respectively. Similarly, in therapists percentage of female was approximately 80%, whereas the figure for males was about 20%. In advertising, women also held a slight advantage, accounting for 55% of executives compared to 45% of men.
On the other hand, turning to male-dominated sectors, construction exhibited the highest disparity, with male managers accounting for an overwhelming 90%, while females made up a mere 10%. A similar trend was observed in fields of science and law, men held 60% and 55% of executive roles in these areas respectively. Ultimately, journalism stood out as the only sector with absolute gender equality, where the proportion of executives was split exactly 50-50 between both sexes.