Work & training
- The most common occupations in Belgium are general office clerks, shop salespersons, cleaners and helpers in offices, hotels and other establishments, domestic cleaners and helpers and secondary education teachers.
- Heavy-truck and lorry driver is the most common job among men. General office clerk is the most common occupation among women.
- Typical women's occupations are among others: midwifery professionals, domestic cleaners and helpers, child care workers, early childhood educators and home-based personal care workers. The percentage of women in the total of employees in these occupations is above 97 %.
- Occupations that are almost exclusively dominated by men include: electrical mechanics and fitters, firefighters, electronics mechanics and servicers, concrete placers, concrete finishers and related workers and sheet-metal workers.