One might also note that the area of music occupies a very modest component of the total workforce (being just one (small) sub component of the group called “kultur, fritid og anden service” which itself comprises only about 135.000 people. Whereas the “Public administration, education, and health.” as you note is a giant bucket category, where any of the three sub groups listed surely merit their own entries by sheer size alone.
Visibility of the different groups is also widely different. No child growing up can avoid being surrounded (if not submerged) by the members of the most women-dominated groups on a daily basis. Anyone interacting with schools, any public administrative function or health care will increasingly meet only women. Meanwhile, the only interaction most people will have with “bygge og anlæg” will be when passing a road construction crew while driving a car.
The musicians will be visible primarily to the culturally active segment of the population who attends concerts, reads Politiken and can afford to spend time inventing boutique problems that require someone else’s money to solve. I suspect that is in no small part why this particular area suddenly got singled out.
In that table the closest group to par is Finance & Insurance, an area in which I've been working for the past 7 years or so. What's interesting about that is although there is something like balance within these institutions overall, the balance is not even within particular areas.
For example, the finance, investing, actuarial, and IT areas are dominated by men (I'm guessing at least 70-30), while communications, marketing, and customer service are dominated by women (by a similar ratio). And thanks to the kinds of data I worked with at a recent job, I also happen to know to the extent there are women in construction and infrastructure, the overwhelming majority of them are performing clerical functions rather than swinging hammers around or driving bulldozers.
It would be interesting to see a study breaking gender balance down not by the branch of one's employer, but by the type of work one actually performs. Not that any of it matters: as long as people are free to puruse whatever line of work they please, and as long as no one is being discriminated against on the basis of their gender, who cares?
One might also note that the area of music occupies a very modest component of the total workforce (being just one (small) sub component of the group called “kultur, fritid og anden service” which itself comprises only about 135.000 people. Whereas the “Public administration, education, and health.” as you note is a giant bucket category, where any of the three sub groups listed surely merit their own entries by sheer size alone.
Visibility of the different groups is also widely different. No child growing up can avoid being surrounded (if not submerged) by the members of the most women-dominated groups on a daily basis. Anyone interacting with schools, any public administrative function or health care will increasingly meet only women. Meanwhile, the only interaction most people will have with “bygge og anlæg” will be when passing a road construction crew while driving a car.
The musicians will be visible primarily to the culturally active segment of the population who attends concerts, reads Politiken and can afford to spend time inventing boutique problems that require someone else’s money to solve. I suspect that is in no small part why this particular area suddenly got singled out.
In that table the closest group to par is Finance & Insurance, an area in which I've been working for the past 7 years or so. What's interesting about that is although there is something like balance within these institutions overall, the balance is not even within particular areas.
For example, the finance, investing, actuarial, and IT areas are dominated by men (I'm guessing at least 70-30), while communications, marketing, and customer service are dominated by women (by a similar ratio). And thanks to the kinds of data I worked with at a recent job, I also happen to know to the extent there are women in construction and infrastructure, the overwhelming majority of them are performing clerical functions rather than swinging hammers around or driving bulldozers.
It would be interesting to see a study breaking gender balance down not by the branch of one's employer, but by the type of work one actually performs. Not that any of it matters: as long as people are free to puruse whatever line of work they please, and as long as no one is being discriminated against on the basis of their gender, who cares?