Take away all farmer subsidies and that sector would still be doing great and yes it is one of our powerful export sectors. There is a hungry world out there that has money to buy our farm products
Energy sector is very productive. Extraction, refining, distribution of oil/gas/electric is an essential and productive sector. Add electric power generation.
Yes Hollywood is a reliable exporter bringing in foreigners money. The productive sectors are dominated by men. Women dominate or have more pull in the non-productive sectors. Yes I’m making a generalization here
Men dominate the productive sectors of manufacturing and hi-tech.
I think one of our problems these is are the poor definition of the terms “productive” and “production”...for example, the GDP does not measure production.
It causes confusion.
For example, pulling minerals from the ground and selling them, selling our real estate to foreigners, etc., are not truly “productive.” An intellectual or technological creation, or planting a field to yield vegetation (if soil loss and fertilization, etc., are replenished), is productive.