The bar charts below depict the employment rate of Australian males and females from three age groups in 3 different years. Overall, people who were 60 to 64 years old, which was the oldest age group, were hired the least in both genders in all years. In addition, except for the figure for juveniles in the last 2 years, the rate of employed men was higher than that of women in all years and all age groups.
Starting with the chart for males, there was a slight decrease of nearly 2% in the figure for the youngest group from the starting point of 62%, followed by a significant drop to swiftly over 50% in 2014. Meanwhile, the rate of citizens whose ages were 35 to 44 remained unchanged throughout the surveyed period while the figure for the oldest group rose significantly to approximately 62% in the last year after increasing slightly to about 42% in 2001.
Turning to females, 60% of girls aged 15 to 19 were hired in all years when the percentage of female workers in the second age group went up gradually from nearly 60% to 70% in 2001 then peaked at 80% in the last year. Likewise, the figure for female employees in their 60s, which started at only 10%, increased remarkably to 20% in 2001 before doubling to over 40% in 2014.