These two bar charts depict how employment rates declined in four different nations from 1970 to 2000. Overall, it is evident that figures for female workers in Belgium and USA showed the most significant decline whereas other categories also followed a considerable downward trajectory.
To start with, the percentage of women in Belgium with employment fell from 63% in 1970 to a meagre of 8% three decades later in contrast to a relatively moderate decline of men’s figure (78% to 45%). Likewise, the rate of employed American women dropped from 78% to 50% though its counterpart for American men remained as the highest figure across four nations with its proportion slightly decreasing from 86% to 78%.
Meanwhile, the labor market was better for two remaining Asian nations. The margins of decrease were 13% and 9% for men (76% to 63%) and women (56% to 47%) respectively in Japan. The percentage of employed men in Indonesia also stood at a relatively high of 74% after experiencing a 10% fall while that of women workers went down by 15% to 50%.