The pie charts given represent the number of employed males and females having a full-, or part-time job in the UK in 1988 and 2012.
Overall, the total number of employees increased. Also, it can clearly be seen that most of the employed UK residents were men with full-time jobs, while least of that were men with part-time jobs in both years. Although the number of women working full-time was higher in the second year than in the first, that of women with part-time jobs stayed relatively the same, having a minimal change.
While almost half of the UK’s employees were males working full-time, making a 53% of the UK’s workers in 1988, that figure changed more significantly than other categories to 47% in 2012. Likewise, there were 19% of females working full-time (4,482) which rose to 26% of that (7,696) in 1988 and 2012, respectively.
Regarding the groups of employed people in the UK which remained approximately the same, there was a change of 1% in male employees having a part-time job, which grew from 6% (1,550) to 7% (2,131) in 1988 and 2012 respectively. On the other hand, the percentage of females working part-time was 22% in 1988, which decreased to a fifth of the UK’s employees.