<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><item><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></item></parent_chain><comment><author>patio11</author><text>Among other things, it was influenced by ~2 million men leaving the civilian labor force temporarily because the government urgently required their services to fight a war.&lt;p&gt;The part would have been disproportionately true for jobs lower down the socioeconomic ladder because jobs higher on the socioeconomic ladder generally go to people who had more ability to licitly or illicitly avoid selection for military service.</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><item><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></item></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelleslie</author><text>More women entered the workforce at that time, and households with more than one breadwinner became more common due to wage stagnation in the 70s, but I imagine there&amp;#x27;s more at play than just that.</text></comment>