Chart of the day: The most manly (and womanly) jobs in Australia

Updated

While we've seen plenty of changes in the workforce in recent years, some jobs remain stubbornly 'men's work' and 'women's work'.

The last census shows that of the top 30 jobs in Australia, all but a handful were skewed more than 75 per cent towards one gender or the other.

The most evenly split occupation was 'retail manager', at almost 49.5 per cent female.

For the record: while they didn't make the list of the top 30 most popular jobs in this chart, the most "male" jobs were sheet metal trades (99.34 per cent), and the most "female" were dental assistants and midwives (98.11 per cent).

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Topics: work, women, men, feminism, australia

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