Are women the majority of the workforce now? (employees, analysis, work)

[DownHillAmerica]

What do you think?

Aside from the trades, it seems everywhere I go there are hardly any men working.

[HarryWarden]

Seems that way where I work. An office of 40 and only 5 men, myself included.

[Hemlock140]

Men are still a majority by 56-43% according to the most recent census numbers, not likely to have changed since 2010.

Where I work there are 2,000 employees, and clearly more men. We even have several male admins, but also a handful of female engineers, and IT is only barely more males. I worked in an office in the 80s where I was one of a few men, and supervised 23 women.In Seattle there is a lot of new high-rise construction and among the workers I see maybe 2 women out of 100. It depends on the kind of work. Go to the hospital doctor's office or urgent care and there seems to be far more women, same with restaurants, retail and fast food.

[jade408]

I work at a tech company. We are around 60-65% male. A few departments have more women - hr and finance. Marketing used to but it is now evenly split. And the sales operations team is aboitneven. All of the other departments are mostly male.

[CGab]

I think it depends on the type of company.

[MLSFan]

Originally Posted by CGab

I think it depends on the type of company.

Depends on how jaded the person looking is, if they want to see females, they see them everywhere

Like red cars on the road

[ihatetodust]

My "team" has 38 men, 2 women.

[tonym9428]

I'm a data scientist at a tech company. All of us are men.

I'm sure it depends on the industry and department. Tech in Bay Area tends to be overwhelmingly male and asian/white.

[BigDGeek]

Our IT department here is overwhelmingly male. Of the females here, a good half are in quasi-technical roles like QA and business analysis.

I can count the female techies on one hand.

[fishbrains]

Why do you think it matters?