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I guess it depends how broad you go. For example worked with many female web designers. And qa testers. But ratio of say backend programmers is very very low. G

I guess it depends how broad you go. For example worked with many female web designers. And qa testers. But ratio of say backend programmers is very very low. Guess your stat doesn't say that. Graduate rate doesn't matter because it feels like many women do the programming thing for 2 years and drop out. (All this is sad and I wish we had more females. Businesses with more healthy male to female ratios tend to be less bro)

belorn 10y ago
Not sure there is a official term for it, but there seem to be a similar pattern in majority (>80%) of professions. Gender segregation happens on both on a market level and on a inter-profession level, and for both men and women. For example, there is about 20% of men in the teaching profession but much less (ie single digit) of male teachers that teach languages. On the flip side there is much more than 20% men in the subgroup of physical education teachers, and even more that leaves the schools and becomes sport instructors (with a teacher degree). In Sweden there is about 12.5% of employed citizens that work in a profession that has at minimum 40% men and women, but I don't know the portion of that minority group that actually have 40% coworkers with a different gender then themselves with identical title and work tasks. My random guess would be around 33%, which would translate to 4% of the total employed population.