The bar chart illustrates the rate of employment of male and female in four nations, namely South Africa, Chile, Finland, and Norway, in the year of 2002.
From an overall perspective, it is immediately apparent that the employment rate of male was higher than that of female in all four countries. Apart from that, the employment rate in Norway was highest for both genders amongst the four nations.
In detail, Norway had the smallest difference of 4% in the rates of employment between male and female, which were 79% and 75%, respectively. Finland’s male and female employment rates also showed a difference of 4%, with 79% for the former and 75% for the latter. On the contrary, Chile experienced the largest difference of 36% between the rate of employment of male and that of female. Compared to the 70% male employment rate in Chile, its female employment rate was roughly halved to 34%. Lastly, South Africa had the lowest male rate of employment of 50% while its female rate of employment was 38%, slightly higher than that of Chile by 4%.
