The given graph illustrates the proportion of disparities in salary among males and females between 1978 and 2008
In general, the majority of the countries experienced a downward trend over the 30-year period except for Australia, which witnessed considerable issues in gender’s equality after 1998.
To begin with, Japan was the top-figure of the total with approximately 50% difference in gender’s income in 1978 before this trend dropped constantly to nearly 40% after 30 years. Starting with lower percentage, the US also saw significant decrease in gender’s distinction in income when its statistic plummeted continuously until it reached around 27% in 2008. Similarly but at a smaller extent, the UK followed the same pattern with around 26% in 2007, which nearly shared the same percentage with the US.
In term of France, this country seemed to balance gender’s income so well that its statistic had a slight decrease by 3%(from 29% to 26%) during the given time frame. Starting with the lowest point with 17%, Australia was likely to operate gender’s income efficiently from 1978 to 1998. However, this region observed a huge gap in gender’s payment after one decade, which was even 10% higher than the figure for France at the same period.