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Nothing that went from female to male?
by Practicality 9y ago
Nothing that went from female to male?
- ddlatham 9y agoGaming Services Workers
- AstralStorm 9y agoThey have a selection of ones fluctuating. I'd be surprised if you would find any job typically female since 50s other than perhaps being a housekeeper and child care.
- aidenn0 9y ago> I'd be surprised if you would find any job typically female since 50s other than perhaps being a housekeeper and child care. All still more than 70% female: Elementary school teacher Flight attendant Registered nurses, also vocational nurses Wait Staff Occupational Therapists
- briandear 9y agoSocial workers and mental health counselors are overwhelmingly female (and white.)
- aidenn0 9y agoLook for jobs in the service industry. Many of them used to be nearly 100% female and are now 50-50
- mrweasel 9y agoI was wondering the same thing. "Also the Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders" seems to be more in the female to male category and not fluctuating category.
- MBCook 9y agoThe text says there were a few but they're not called out.
- jedberg 9y agoTour and Travel Guides is one of them. I basically went to the circles thing in the middle and started moving my mouse around till I found one that I thought might have been female dominated in the past, then I checked it in the box below. Would be nice to get the data though.
- riphay 9y agoSeems to be a few as other comments have pointed out. But the female labour-force participation rate at the start of the dataset would make it difficult for individual job categories to switch from majority female to male over this particular time span.
- exDM69 9y agoProgrammers and computer operators did, but I can't find it in the page. "Computer" used to be a person crunching numbers using slide rules and mechanical calculators and it was an overwhelmingly female profession. When machines appeared, the operators were predominantly the same personnel that were doing it by hand earlier.
- ChrisSD 9y agoOf the software related occupations it lists, they don't seem to go before the 1970's. This is much too late to see that trend.
- astura 9y agoThey have "Software Developers, Applications and Systems Software" and "Computer Programmers." The latter goes back to 1970. However, I'm really not sure if there's supposed to be a difference between the two.
- Kiro 9y ago"Computer Programmers" is there but looks like it has always been dominated by men.
- exDM69 9y agoDoes the data set go all the way to the 50s for that profession?
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- sbov 9y agoThere isn't a lot written about that time. So my understanding could be incorrect. But as far as I know, back in the 40s/50s, programmer meant something different and very specific than what people today might mean. Basically, a programmer would have all the algorithms and pseudocode written and chosen by someone else (a man), and your job as programmer was to translate (for pseudocode) or transcribe (when provided more direct instructions) that into the computer. Even this was not easy though - programmers may have had to debug the pseudocode or a broken computer (not nearly as reliable as our modern ones). Once it was revealed it wasn't a straightforward process, men took over. My understanding is that this happened relatively quickly - in the 50s or 60s. But, still, it was a job most people on here probably wouldn't care for. If anyone has any good books on this subject, I would love some recommendations.
- astura 9y ago>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.
- TorKlingberg 9y agoFrom click the random button for a while, a lot food food-related jobs have become more male. Chefs and Cooks for example.