The majority of women serve, take care of and educate people. They work, amongst others, as sales assistants, cleaners, in various office and secretarial functions, in nursing and in child care. The majority of men, on the other hand, produce, handle and transport equipment. They work, amongst others, as drivers, in building construction, in repair and installation, and in business management. W omen and men also work in different sectors.
Women work more in the public sector whereas men are more private sector oriented.
These include chemists, doctors, newspaper deliverers, opticians, farmers, forest cultivators and journalists. Professions evenly divided by gender have changed in the course of the last two decades. T his separation has had the consequence that different professions and jobs and the requisite skills are easily associated with notions of femaleness or maleness. The result of female labour is the invisible assurance of continuity whereas that of male labour is concrete objects and documents. Such cultural codifications of work do not in themselves give rise to judgements of better or worse.