<story><title>Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950</title><url>https://flowingdata.com/2017/09/11/most-female-and-male-occupations-since-1950/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tzs</author><text>Sone of these may be more skewed than they should be due to similar jobs sometimes having more than one title, with the different titles being strongly associated with gender.&lt;p&gt;For example, in a small organization one person might perform the duties of a janitor and of a maid. If that person is male he will probably be called a janitor, and if that person is female she will probably be called a maid.</text></comment>
<story><title>Most Female and Male Occupations Since 1950</title><url>https://flowingdata.com/2017/09/11/most-female-and-male-occupations-since-1950/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>disconnected</author><text>Many of those shifts from a majority male workforce to a majority female workforce seem to happen quickly (or even abruptly) at around the 1960s&amp;#x2F;1970s.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not well versed in American history. Did anything significant happen then to cause this, or is it just an interesting anomaly?</text></comment>