Band 7+: 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 write at least 150 words.

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 – 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 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 with a female majority the figures were close. This means that men make up a disproportionate amount of the Australian workforce.