The Jobs Most Segregated by Gender and Race

Silicon Valley tech companies tend to have lots of men working for them. Mostly white and Asian men -- blacks and Hispanics are pretty scarce. These disparities have been the subject of much attention and criticism, and are of course the backdrop to this month's big controversy over efforts to increase diversity at Google.

But there are occupations out there that are far more male and/or far more white than, say, software developer. A question from a colleague the other day sent me to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' most recent annual accounting of employment by occupation, gender and race or ethnicity. As is my wont, I then started making charts. They're interesting enough that I'm going to let them mostly speak for themselves, albeit with a few explanations and observations here and there.

To start, the most male-dominated occupations (and yes, I realize it's kind of pointless to do a bar chart when the range of outcomes is so narrow, but it will make more sense in subsequent charts):