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I work in the the data and analytics field, specifically in the healthcare industry.
The roles of data scientist and data engineering within the analytics field heavily lean to a more MALE dominated roles at roughly 80% a piece.
The role of data analyst within the field is more evenly split at 50/50. This position can pay pretty well but it is the least well paid of the three mentioned.
My team of 8 consist of "Economic Consultant" titles but we function as data analyst/data engineers and we are 3 females and 5 males with the leader being a female.
I am curious, what's the gender ratio in your immediate team, field and/or industry.
I work in Tech Sales, it is a role dominated by males. My team is 60/40 male dominated.
I think the industry skews even higher towards males, at 75/25.
I’m a librarian, which by national (possibly international too) averages is around 70% female - but upper management is suspiciously more equal. And where I currently work, I am outnumbered by the “guybrarians” in our adult services team. Only six of us: Me (female), another woman, three males, and one non-binary AFAB.
The non-librarian staff members, like our clerks and pages/shelvers, also lean more heavily female. Just slightly less so. And our children’s librarians are all women, which is typical for that service area.
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I manage the 6 lease management, billing and utilities people in commercial/industrial real estate. I'm the only male, all of my staff are millennial females. Among the 12 property managers that we support, only one is male.
I was doing data science in heatlhcare before it was a thing. Back then, the ratio's were similar but I found that men were stronger with the technical portions of the work and women were stronger with other portions (requirements gathering, etc.). I also found that most women came from other backgrounds and kind of fell into the role whereas men had more of a trajectory that aligned with their role. Today, I manage a team and try to keep a balanced ratio of gender, age, etc. As a leader, I see big benefits with both genders and other qualities in the professional world.
Clerical/admin job. About 95% female, now after some males left maybe 98%. Constant talks about nails, cooking and babies which gets annoying after a while.
Before this job I worked in a call center doing sales. Back there I think we were 70% guys and 30% women. I also worked in IT sales - 99% guys. The constant talk about nerdy things like PC games was annoying.
From now on I will avoid work environments that lean too much either gender or other subgroup (like techie geeks) as in my experience those tend to be the most unpleasant ones. It's harder to find people to be friends with in a place where all topics of interest are all one-sided. At my 70/30 environment we had gearheads while in my 99% IT crowd everyone but me was constantly blabbing about gaming this gaming that. And now my office being female-dominated too many of my coworkers talk about their nails, babies, and cooking all day.
I spent 40 years in the Metals business. When I started I noted that there were no women or minorities. Felt at some point I would be “held back” while the industry caught up. Never happened.
I'm in marketing. My team is about 70/30 male emphasis, but several other teams are more female-heavy. I don't think gender matters so much in this field.
I worked in technical publications. There were two male editors. The remainder of the 40+ employees were female. Women with children constantly came in late, took off early, were excused from doing overtime or travel, and received the choicest holiday and vacation days. I eventually transferred to a male-dominated department where work and benefits were evenly distributed and didn't punish childfree personnel.
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