The table compares the proportion of two genders who work in distinct areas of employment in an unspecified country in 1986, 1996 and 2006.
Overall, while men’s preferred areas were retails and manufacturing industry to work, health and tourism was a desirable working section for women.
Turning to shops and manufacturing industries, the share of males working in these sectors was considerably higher compared to that of females in all periods. While there was a constant 13% of working men in retail, 7% women were working in 1990, increasing a percent every decade. The highest proportion of men, 30%, worked in 1990 in the manufacturing industry sector prior to halving in the following decade and decreasing by 5% in the next 10 years, whereas women’s share was 7%, 8% and 3% in 1990, 2000 and 2010, respectively.
Turning to areas in which females were dominant, the share of women working in the health sector increased steadily, up from 9% to 15% in two decades, surpassing the opposite gender at 7% by 2000 and 9% in 2010. Tourism experienced a wide disparity between the shares of two working genders, with males decreasing from 13% to 10%, unlike females going up from 23% to 27% by the end of the year, making tourism the most suitable area for women to work.