Skilled labor shortages hit classic women's and men's jobs particularly hard. In 2023 there were around 20,000 missing skilled workers.
The proportion of female car mechanics has doubled since 2014, but is now only almost five percent. In some professions that are typically female, the proportion of men is now decreasing again. But the trend was reversed in health and nursing, where the proportion. of men increased by over 2 percentage points. In both professions, around a quarter of employees are male.