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Yes, there are more male than female construction workers. There are also more female than male secretaries and nurses.
I kinda take umbrage at this, as my mother and sister, both nurses, are both college graduates. This is not World War I. You can't just come out of high school and become a nurse. Even if you don't get the BS, you still have to go through a 2-3 year period of training, and a nurse with the BS is much more desirable.
Also: there are plenty of male "administrative assistants." (They balk at being called secretaries, but, well, that's what they are. That's what I was, while working on my graduate degree.) Most of them are also college graduates.
