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Three decades ago, all the boys dreamed of becoming cosmonauts, pilots, policemen. It was believed that this is exclusively a male profession, while a teacher or teacher is a woman.

Currently, the situation in some wayhas changed, and the representatives of the stronger sex are happy to work, it would seem, in areas unusual for them, such as cooking or sewing fashionable clothes. However, today a huge number of women do not consider it shameful to choose men’s professions, in particular a trolleybus driver or a security guard at the enterprise.

Why is the division of labor into «male» and «female»

It happened historically. The man was traditionally perceived as a defender, an earner and a farmer. He was well developed physically, so he could do the hard work. Representatives of the weaker sex were positioned as guardians of the home and the teacher of children. Time passed, the range of activities expanded, but nobody dared to challenge the principle of division of labor.

In other words, the division into the profession of men’s and women’s still has not been canceled.

What kinds of activities are men engaged in

The strong sex is involved in providingdefense capacity of the country, protection of public order, automobile industry, metallurgy, chemical and oil and gas industry. In other words, energy, miners, drivers, police, sailors, firefighters are the most «male» professions. At the same time, we should not forget that in the spheres of construction and rail transportation the representatives of the stronger sex are mainly involved. Workers who work in harmful production are mostly men. What professions do they prefer today? Modern men’s professions are represented by the sphere of business, which brings a stable profit. However, do not think that all the representatives of the stronger sex set themselves exclusively selfish goals. Today, men’s professions are a surgeon, a dentist, and an orthopedist.

Rating of the most popular professions

«Well, what kind of man does not dream of becoming a deputy, a minister or even a president?» You ask.

Of course, this question leads to a logicalthe answer: «Everyone dreams about it.» What are popular men’s jobs today? The list begins precisely with those connected with the government.

«State Men»

Today, the people’s choice is a «tasty» professionfor a man. At the same time, modern representatives of the stronger sex prefer to work not only in demanded, but also in highly paid spheres of activity.

Creative people

So, what are these masculine professions? The list is the following: a singer, musician, writer, actor, screenwriter, director. Here, of course, you need talent, and otherwise you will not achieve success in the above-mentioned field.

«Popular» activities

However, do not forget about the traditional»Profitable» specialties. The point is that, as before, young students dream of the work of an economist, lawyer, banker, accountant, manager. Today the age of computer technology, and many men prefer to work in the field of software, telecommunications and the creation of innovative applications.

Of course, a programmer is a generalized field of activity, which implies a huge number of specializations: a 1C programmer, a web programmer, a programmer and so on.

Culinary arts

Another popular among representativesA strong-sex profession is the chef. «Is it a man’s business to mess around in the kitchen?» You ask. Do you know that most of the professionals in cooking are men? Keep in mind that the cook is a multi-faceted profession: he is parallel to the accountant, since he must conduct the calculation, fix the estimate, and the artist, in view of the fact that it is necessary to properly decorate the dish, and the mechanic, since he needs to be able to handle kitchen equipment.

Here are the statistical data. Today the chef — in the majority (82%) — men. However, it should be noted that in recent years, male leaders in the public catering sector have been pushed by the representatives of the weaker sex.

Anyway, but the strong sex perfectly copes with duties in the kitchen and if they are aimed at cooking a spicy dish, then be sure that they will perform their task «perfectly».

The sphere of creating a style

There is an opinion that the best specialists in creatingimage and style are obtained from men. We are talking about make-up artists, hairdressers, image-makers. The stylist will always advise the person what to wear for this or that case taking into account your preferred style, color and size. The aforementioned profession is in demand mainly in large metropolitan areas, where life is a key, and business people have absolutely no time to deal with their appearance. Today, famous actors, singers, politicians, businessmen enjoy using services of experienced male stylists.

Traditionally male professions

This point certainly deserves the firstplaces, because in these spheres of activity the representatives of the stronger sex fulfill their natural task: they save health, people’s lives, protect the territorial integrity of the state.

First of all, we are talking about such professions,as a policeman, an employee of the Ministry of Emergency Measures, a fireman, a representative of special forces and riot police, a sailor. Of course, you need to have remarkable courage, responsibility, courage, physical data to choose the above professions.

Rare

It should be noted that in our country there isalso a rare male profession — dergal. What does this person do? He collects algae, and the duration of his work is only three months a year.

In European countries there is a vacancya scuba diver. It is necessary to have a certain boldness and dexterity to lay mines deep under water. On the territory of the Frankfurt airport there is a person who is responsible for washing the aircraft. The dietician of horses is very unusual. His task is to monitor the correct diet of savrasks. And how do you profession — a consultant on rare names? He helps parents to choose an unusual and unusual name for their children, his services are estimated quite expensive. Abroad, even periodically opens a vacancy for the post of observer for the work of strippers. One can only imagine how many men responded to it, especially since such a «dust-free» job is offered a very serious salary — $ 10,000 per month.

The rarest

Do you know that there is the rarest male profession?

It is called the «caretaker of the paradise island». The vacancy came at a time when it was necessary to raise the popularity of recreation on exotic islands. One travel agency announced a competition for the post of «caretaker», who was supposed to live on one of the Australian islands for six months, playing golf, swimming in the pool, photographing the surrounding nature. On the results of the work done, he should report on his blog. As a result, the company managed to find a suitable candidate for the position of «superintendent». For six months, a person earned $ 100,000. There is nothing surprising in that the rarest male profession is a dream for many.

Decades ago, men went to work and women stayed at home to take care of the home and children. This of course changed a lot. In 1950, a bit over 30 percent of women aged 16 to 64 worked, and just over 80 percent of men in the same age group did. In 2015, it’s closer to 70 percent for women and high 70s for men.

Naturally, men and women now work many of the same jobs, but many jobs are mostly men or mostly women. Here’s what it looked like in 2015, based on data from the American Community Survey.

The most female job was preschool and kindergarten teachers, and the most male was carpenters. The male-female ratios for these jobs changed little. But there are a lot of jobs in the middle of the chart that shifted plenty.

Looking more broadly, here’s how employment in different job categories changed since 1950.

At this point, the most interesting is the sum of the parts. The percentage of women not in the labor force decreased at lot between 1950 to 1990 and then kind of leveled off after that. The percentage of men not in the labor force increased some.

With this in mind, I looked for occupations that showed the biggest shifts, which as you’d expect went from mostly male to female. Some shifts were gradual like bakers and compliance officers, whereas others were quicker such as mail clerks and human resources.

Between 1950 and 2015, there were 82 occupations out of 459 that flipped from male to female and/or female to male. Out of the 82, 72 shifted from male to female majority. There were 28 occupations that shifted from majority female to male. (Keep in mind that an occupation can fluctuate more than once over the years.)

Below are the six jobs that showed the most fluctuation from majority female to male. Personal care and service workers stand out.

Want to see how other occupations have changed? Check it out below.

Searchable Time Series Chart

Here’s how I made the interactive chart above.

Notes

• The data comes the decennial census from the Census Bureau for the years 1950 through 2000. The data for 2010 and 2015 comes from the American Community Survey. I downloaded all the data using the IPUMS USA extraction tool, which is maintained by the University of Minnesota.
• Occupation classifications from the Census Bureau change regularly. IPUMS offers a few unified classifications to make it possible to compare data over time. I used the 2010 basis for patterns over time. For the first chart though, I used the ACS 2015 classification.
• Percentages are based on the 16- to 64-year-old populations each year.
• I analyzed and processed the data in R. I visualized the data with d3.js. I also used the d3-annotation library and JavaScript-autoComplete.

I came across an interesting article in the San Jose Mercury News which tackles the concept of “occupational segregation.” What is it about?

Despite the women’s movement and the changes that occurred in the 70’s and 80’s that helped women make larger strides in the workforce, social economists are now saying that the progress that allowed the gender crossover in jobs may have stalled a bit since the last decade. The social scientists call this “occupational segregation” and they don’t seem to be too happy about it.

Why so?

Why the need to have a more equal workforce?

#1 To narrow the pay gap
Women earn 25% less than men do in general. But the reason why everyone harps about women getting less money than men do in their jobs is because of the type of jobs that most women find themselves in. If a man finds himself working in a “female” oriented job, he ends up earning 12.5 percent less than his male counterparts; whereas a woman who works in a “male” dominated field earns 25.9 percent more than her female peers. So interestingly, it’s all about the job type that changes the averages here.

#2 To better respond to shortages in fields, jobs, industries
Instead of getting worked up over perceived shortages in certain professions, it would be great if the labor pool can be easily balanced out by drawing from a supply of trained men or women to cover the skill gaps. But this is tough to achieve in reality because job stereotyping by gender is alive and well and is hard to vanquish. Even with laws out there that encourage openness in professions, the enforcement of sexual discrimination laws has been weak.

Data from the San Jose Mercury News:

The 10 Most Female Occupations

(highest percentage of workers that are female)

The 10 Most Male Occupations

(highest percentage of workers that are male)

But how do we really feel about gender crossovers in the workplace? How comfortable would you be to see men in the maternity ward and day care centers or women in trucking, construction and heavy machinery operations? Strangely, I’m reading some reports which contradict the pay gap issues, such as this article, which appears that in less traditional and more gender blind type jobs, women in fact are earning more than men!

So don’t cry for the women yet, because reports are popping up about how they are gaining more lucrative jobs at a better pace than men are doing in the last several years.

It would be great to achieve an ideal employment balance on a national scale and I believe we’re still very much headed in the right direction. But I don’t lose sleep over the preponderance of traditional jobs today. We have immigration resolving job shortage issues (though that’s another hot topic!), plus there are less gender specific jobs out there that we can always try to gain skills for.

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Stereotypes, although offensive to some, can really prove to be infinitely fascinating. And as a man who has lived in a few different countries, it is interesting to me how these stereotypes differ from culture to culture. 

When we think about who is the stereotypical member of a given profession, then it seems that, almost universally, careers that involve fighting/danger are mostly male dominated — military, police, miners, and professions that involve children/caring are mostly female — school teachers, nurses etc. But there are some professions in Russia that are dominated by women, which are stereotypically male in the West.We’re going to take a look at some of them. 

Accountants

As an American my stereotype of an accountant is a small man in a small office, balding from the stress of having to try to trick the IRS into leaving his clients alone. However, in Russia the accounting department is almost always 90%+ female. In the West there was always a stereotype that “men are good at math”, however I think the Russo-Soviet stereotype that “Women work indoors at safe jobs, men work outside and at dangerous jobs” is the fundamental logic as to why there aren’t many guy accountants here. My male brain is certainly not suited for accounting — so many numbers, so much math, so much attention to every detail is needed! Although the office environment is comfortable with tea and cookies, this is some tough mental women’s work in Russia that I do not envy! 

Tram Drivers

There are a few competing theories as to why tram drivers in the Soviet Union (and mostly to this day) were overwhelmingly female. On the one hand, there is the “sexist” theory that the Communist powers-that-were thought that since the trams are rolling on rails, this makes driving them super simple. This is the whole “women are bad drivers” stereotype as Communist planning policy! Also trams breakdown less often and do not require much maintenance by the driver, i.e. less brute force and technical knowledge is needed. 

On the other hand there is a theory that men were given jobs driving between cities on big Kamaz trucks and busses to spare women from the danger of it. Just imagine — if you are driving a semi-truck in the 1960’s between isolated locations in Siberia in winter — if that truck breaks down and you can’t fix it. You could very well die! Roads in the USSR were very shabby or non existent, and changing a flat tire in -30C weather requires a lot of physical force, so many think that all male drivers were sent to do the dangerous driving, while women were moved to the safer more privileged positions on trams, which actually offered good salaries relative to the Soviet economy. 

I have gotten the chance to drive a tram, and it is amazing, because in front of you there is nothing but glass, so you feel like you are just floating forward (not seeing the frame of the vehicle) and let me tell you one thing, these babies look slow but their zero-to-sixty kph is very impressive.

Producers

A hot shot producer in the West is probably a man living in Los Angeles making hundreds of phone calls per day. The part about the hundreds of phone calls is true in Russia too, but if you look at a room full of producers in Moscow (which I have at numerous TV channels), you will see 90+ percent female workers talking and organizing the future of Russian media. Also the room will be immaculately clean. The desk of your average producer in Moscow looks like a photo from a furniture ad, whereas mine allows you to see what the packaging from my last few lunches looks like. You could consider me a pig or that I lived the Thug Life… your call.  

Women in Russia are thought to be better organized and better multitaskers than men, thus when I get a call from a producer to go on some TV show, the voice is always female, and probably should be: I am fantastic on camera, I am okay on the technical side, but let’s just say I am not much of a producer with my hardcore one-track mind.  

3 Particular Military Professions

Although, obviously, the Russian military is primarily made up of men, there are three occupations where women seem to rule — Medics, Translators, Communications Specialists. In a movie about the American military, when someone screams “Medic!” you expect a man to show up. In Russia it is the opposite. The Russian military is big, and the Soviet military was 4 times bigger manpower-wise, so it is not surprising that the USSR wanted to get women involved in the military as much as possible in roles they could perform as good as or better than men, and the rest is history. 

So today, if you see ranks of women marching in a Russian military parade, there is a good chance (but far from a guarantee) that they work in one of these three specific divisions of the military. 

Painting, Drywalling and Wallpapering

In the USA our stereotype of every aspect of construction is a male one. I used to work in construction in The States, and, well, that stereotype reflects reality. Of the people who worked with their hands, I think we had 49 men to one woman. 

The same is true in Russia when they are building a new block of flats: you really only see men covered in dirt, paint and lots of scratch marks moving around the job site. However, at the very last step of construction, when (and if) they are going to drywall or wallpaper, then all of a sudden the gender dynamic flips around to a strong female majority. Doing drywall and painting can be very hard work as you constantly have to keep your arms above your head, and it takes some real effort to do it right and do it all day long every day. This is a job I could do but  am glad someone else does for me, and these ladies are definitely some tough individuals. After doing drywall for five years you’ll have arms of steel… and lifelong back problems. 

So why are these professions female? 

It is hard to say just what exactly goes on in a culture’s subconscious that makes it determine which professions are male and which are female. The only thing we can do is conjecture, so here are the tendencies that I think help explain why these professions that are male-dominated in the West are full of beautiful Russian ladies here… 

1. As stated earlier, the idea that women work indoors and men work outdoors, which, while never formally accepted, seems to be always true in Russia. 

2. Women are considered better at communication, caring and multi-tasking. Conversely, employers see men as “bad” at these things. 

3. Since millions of men died in WW2, certain professions that did not demand brute strength or tolerance to danger became “female” because there were not enough men to go around.  

What jobs are male-dominated and female-dominated in your country? Are things like in the West or like in Russia? I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments! 

Tim Kirby is an American who has been living and working in Russia since 2006. Tim has worked in various fields including media production, political analysis and video game development, and right now you will see him as the host of many of our YouTube videos as he travels the country to show you what Russia is really like. Tim has two Russian children of his own. 

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