Men and women are increasingly working each others’ jobs

Nobody likes a good news story. They do not click, they are not shared, they are anti-mmeterh in nature.

I still found one. I will say to three people who still read and be grateful for you.

Everyone knows that women are nowadays that they are more paid Australian labor. This is a complex social story of education, delayed parenting, hokkabazlık tasks, child care, discrimination, ghettoization, salvation and much more. However, the following simple line graph can be distilled:

Women are now doing much more paid work. More than 60% of women participate in the labor market.

But where? This is the detailed question that ABS data is silent. Fortunately, it also publishes ATO statistics for us. Because their statistics collected a lot of demographic and employment data about workers, they find their wages.

Tax Office has set out their statistics for 2022-23 and they show a large amount of where women work in the economy.

We can look at classic men’s fields like train drivers. This is changing. In 2019, there were 10,112 men and 1,073 women who worked as train drivers – about 90% male. It was 10,309 male and 1,912 women until 2023 – about 82% male. This is just a major percentage difference in four years.

(ATO is old and hiding, reporting the gender in a dual style… I will not lie, it makes the analysis easier.)

Similar tendencies can be seen in a series of early male fields. Diesel mechanics is now 1.3% female. The BRICKies profession is now 0.7% of women. This doesn’t come too much, but it’s a big increase – in both cases almost doubled.

Here is a surprise

We know that women are flowing into the labor force, so the above makes sense. Surprise is the female coded works.

They become more blocked. The next graph has a big cast with four dials.

Many blocks can see that they get more women, and at the same time traditionally too many women get more blockey. I was legitimate. For example, in the middle of a cohort of about 20,000 people, there are more than 260 to 410 more than the previous one. Male midwifery is still rare enough in 1-2% (some of which can be existing midwives that change gender identity rather than new, young men who participate in the profession).

Hairdressing works are also changing (probably marked as a barber in the graph because of the selection of some data processing). In fact, the haircut is one of the fastest changing female dominant works. Female hairdressers/barbers are less and men are more in these days. (These data are between 2022-23, so an old effect of locks may remain in the data. Hair cutting expenditures collapsed there for a while.)

A small business group is a woman and get more men like Barista and Ballet Teacher, just like professional builder and night fillings. But in general, the story converge.

And this is a story about the change of culture. There is absolutely no reason why nurses are women and that the plumbers are male – both of them are gross work on managing tubes that do not mean what they mean, and only historical powers and men on the other side. Women would probably be better electricians for some jobs – I have recently held a man who could not fit in the area and had to send his apprentice.

It is social expectations and role modeling that shape the career choice. And we break the solid nature of these expectations.

It is good for convergence, because it indicates that many work can be done by everyone and allows everyone to choose a bigger role set. If we can do a job we love, we will all be so good.