Weekly Viz 2023-12-04

Women in Healthcare

This week, I was looking at the BLS website and found a report on healthcare occupation characteristics. It covers data points on healthcare employment numbers and distributions by education level, gender, age, etc. The data I am visualizing this week is the % of women in each healthcare occupation.

My Visualization

This visualization puts all the occupations under the healthcare field side by side, sorting from the highest to the lowest, with a 50% reference line to show how much more women are there than men in this industry.

Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.

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Insights

• As the report stated, the healthcare industry is highly skewed towards women – about 8 in 10 workers in healthcare occupations are women;
• Healthcare occupations with particularly high concentrations of women included speech-language pathologists (98 percent), dental hygienists (96 percent), dental assistants (94 percent), and nursing assistants (90 percent).In contrast, women were slightly underrepresented among physicians (44 percent).

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