The bar chart illustrates the number of working adults in Australia over the last year. The data is segregated into job types and is also separated by gender.
It is evident that there is generally a higher percentage of men employed in Australia as compared to women in each sector, except for clerical and professionals. Some of the fields of employment such as tradespeople and production show a drastic gap between male and female employees; while others like clerical and professionals demonstrate a smaller gap between the two genders.
Managers, tradespeople, and production fields tend to hire a larger percentage of men compared to women. It is worth highlighting that these three sector have a percentage difference of at least 400’000s between male and female employees. While the other sectors see a smaller difference of approximately 100-200’000s between the two genders.
In contrast to the three specific job types mentioned above, professionals such as teachers and clericals such as office workers have a higher percentage of women employed in comparison to men. However, it is clear that the percentage between the two genders are similar as there is only a difference of about 100’000s. In fact, these two fields show the smallest difference between men and women employees.
All in all, it can be concluded that the working industry in Australia hires a higher percentage of male employees than female employees, though the reasons remain unclear. Clerical and professionals tend to have a higher percentage of women employees; while production and tradespeople see a dramatic hire in the percentage of men employees.