The chart presents information on how many trips men and women made and the reasons for those trips in one country in Europe in 2007. In short, while these groups’ figures did not differ markedly in 3 out of 5 trip reasons, there were notable gender gaps in the remaining two. One was shopping, females’ most cited purpose of trips, and the other was work-related trips, males’ most popular choice.
Day trips, sports/entertainment and visiting friends were the three categories with much less pronounced gender differences. Specifically, men going for day trips accounted for a mere 25 trips, compared to women at about 30. Next on the list were sports/entertainment trips, which stood at roughly 130 for women and, slightly higher, 140 for men.
In contrast, women outstripped their male counterparts in the third category – visiting friends – where the former recorded just over 200 visits and the latter nearly 190.
Unlike these purposes, shopping and work-related travel showed significant gender discrepancies. Whereas 275 trips (the highest figure for females) were made to shop by women, less than 200 were made by men. Yet when it comes to travelling for career pursuits, men topped the list at a chart high of 325 trips, a figure that was virtually 1.5 times that for women.