The bar chart above demonstrates the number of employees in Australia by occupation type and gender last year. Overall, men and women engaged in different jobs, and there were more male than female employees, while the disparities between the number of employed men and women could vary a lot.
First, men and women had different occupations. Most men were tradesmen and clerks, which charted at 900,000 and 870,000 people respectively. Meanwhile, most women were clerks and professionals, accounting for 980,000 and 700,000 people respectively. Yet, the difference between the most common and least common jobs for men (businessman and laborer) is larger than that for women (clerk and businesswoman/production worker); for men, there were a bit more than twice as many tradesmen as laborers, but for women, there were almost ten times as many clerks as tradeswomen/production workers.
Second, the differences between the number of employed males and females vary. Professional and clerk were the only two occupations for which there were more female than male employees. For other jobs, the gap between male and female employees may differ. The smallest difference occurred for laborers: male workers were only one-third more than their female counterparts. The greatest differences, however, occurred for businesspeople and production laborers: the numbers of male employees were 9 times and 5.5 times as many as female employees respectively.
To conclude, men and women had different occupations, and the disparities between the number of employed men and women could vary greatly.