  Occupational segregation is widely considered as one major reason leading to
the gender discrimination in labor market. Using large-scale Chinese resume
data of online job seekers, we uncover an interesting phenomenon that
occupations with higher proportion of men have smaller gender wage gap measured
by the female-male ratio on wage. We further show that the severity of
occupational segregation in China is low both overall and regionally, and the
inter-occupational discrimination is much smaller than the intra-occupational
discrimination. That is to say, Chinese women do not face large barriers when
changing their occupations. Accordingly, we suggest Chineses women a new way to
narrow the gender wage gap: to join male-dominated occupations. Meanwhile, it
is worth noticing that although the gender wage gap is smaller in
male-dominated occupations, it does not mean that the gender discrimination is
smaller there.
