The line chart illustrates variations in the proportion of female employees aged 15-64 from 2003 to 2009 in five countries.
As can be seen from the graph, it is clearly evident that while the percentage of women aged 15-64 in employment in Iceland was the highest among five countries, that of Turkey was the lowest. Additionally, there was not much change in the rate of female employees in selected countries during the research period.
In 2003, the figure for women aged 15-64 in employment in Chile and Turkey was about 35% and 25% respectively. These numbers were quite low at that time. However, two years later, the figure of female employees in Chile increased significantly, standing at 40%, whereas, that in Turkey dropped gradually, at about 23%. From 2005 to 2009, the figure for women employees of these two countries witnessed slight increase.
Turning to Iceland, Canada and Germany, the rate of women in employment in Canada was not much change. The proportion of women in employment in Iceland was 81% at the beginning of the period shown, and this number remained stable from 2003 to 2007.However, this figure reached the bottom at 78% in 2009. In contrast, although the percentage of female in employment in Germany was lower than that in Iceland, there was a significant rise from 2007 to 2009 by 4% from 61% to 65%.