The charts illustrate employment rates of each gender of different ages and the average age of the employees’ youngest child in the UK in 2008.
Overall, the percentage of both male and female employees who were at medium age groups was by far higher than the others. In addition, the gap between each gender was relatively small. Most of employees’ youngest child were males , with the exception for children at 0-5 age cohort and 21-25 age group, whose gender distribution was fairly balanced
Regarding the proportion of male and female employees of different age, the figure for people who were at over 60 years old and 16-25 years old were relatively low at both gender, ( 39% male employees and 26% female ones at 60+ years old ) and ( 20% men and 13% women at 16-25 years old), In contrast, that of 35-49 years old and 50-59 years old was the highest. In particular, female employees at 50-59 age group constituted 80%, 10 percentage points higher than men. Likewise, the figure for women at 35-49 age group made up for 81%, 4 percentage points higher than male employees. Also, the similar pattern was seen in 26-34 age group, where female workers took up nearly 70% and male workers comprised approximately 65%.
Looking at the remaining chart, the average age of employees’ youngest child among 21-25 age group and 0-5 age cohort was virtually even gender distribution. In details, males at the former group constituted 71% and females made up at 70%. Both male and females at the latter group shared an identical proportion, at 60%. In other groups, there was a common trend when the proportion of average age among employees’ male child was higher than that of female child. Particularly, the average age of male child at three remaining groups represented the same figure, at 75%. Whereas, that of females at 16-25 age group was 10 percentage points lower than male counterparts. Similarly, the figure for female at 11-15 age cohort and 6-10 age group made up for 60%