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I never considered highly bureaucratic industries male dominated, where I live, 60% of middle managers, lawyers, etc... are women.

Also women dominate retail, and the service sector in general.

I see male dominated industries that don't bother with gender balance, being construction (and I am not talking only about the field workers, but also engineers, architects, etc...), automobiles, metallurgy, window cleaning (I never saw a woman window cleaner!), sports equipment manufacturing, fishing, farming (I know personally a female farmer that is bloody rich, but she is a exception, and she inherited her farm from her late husband... she is a good farmer though), electricity, telco (excepting call centers and support system of course).




Law and management are high enough status that women had already broken into them by the time you started noticing.




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