The given bar chart illustrates the employment rates in specific countries including Australia, Switzerland, Iceland, the UK, New Zealand and USA in 1995 and 2005, with the units measured in percentage.
Overall, there was a disparity between both genders’ employment rates, with a higher percentage of male workers in all given countries. Another noteworthy point is that Iceland registered the highest number of male employees, whereas this was true for Switzerland regarding the female counterparts.
Considering the three nations with the same changing pattern, Iceland attracted the highest percentage of male workers in 1995, at around 71%, followed by the figures for Switzerland and Australia respectively with the gap of nearly 6%. These ratios moderately went up by about 15% for each one in the next decade. Experiencing the equivalent alteration but at a lesser extent, the number of female employees in Switzerland was the highest at approximately 58%, which was also followed by Iceland and Australia’s orderly with the range of 15%. Roughly 10% was the rate of increase of these three nations’ females in 2005.
Three remaining countries saw a less significant difference between 2 genders. Their numbers of male workers all ended up at seven-tenths after experiencing a 10 percent increase in 10 years, with the exception of the UK with around 15%. The figure for New Zealand female employees was the smallest, at about 25%, then surged by 15%, demonstrating the largest disparity in the given table. Meanwhile, the UK and USA underwent an upward trend around 11% and 14% in 2005 respectively.