Forbes: 20 Surprising Jobs Women Are Taking Over
Women may be half of the workforce, but they have largely been concentrated in lower-paying service jobs like waitresses, retail workers and administrative assistants. However, they could be moving up.
Women are beginning to pour into management and professional occupations that require more education and offer higher pay and status. In fact, women are now dominating some of the jobs that used to belong to men, according to the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau. From finance and business operations to medical management, women now outnumber men in these 20 surprising jobs.
Accounting and tax preparation positions, for example, skew noticeably female. The Women’s Bureau cites accountants and auditors as 61.8% female, tax preparers as 65.9% female, and tax examiners and collectors as 73.8% female. In these positions, women earned a median of about $900 per week in 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and workers can earn upwards of $50,000 per year. ...
