Visualizing Gender Break Out by Profession

538 used Census data to show the gender breakout by profession. Very good! Let me excerpt the most important parts:

The patterns are pretty obvious to me, which is the sign of a good info-graphic. To anticipate a few of your questions:

• Yes, drillers of earth is the most awesome job you've ever heard of.
• A boilermaker fabricates steel plates
• Turns out that @BeckerMN is part of the 2.3%