The table graph illustrates the percentage of men and women employed in 6 multiple industries in New Zealand in 1993 and 2003.
Overall, it is noteworthy that the figures for women working in the service and transport, social services were higher than men. Furthermore, while most of the disparities between the 2 groups narrowed down in the later year, the gender gap in social services witnessed
In regard to the six sectors in 1993, it can be clearly observed that the statistics of female workforce were higher than the other group in the first, fourth and sixth industries. Specifically, accounting for the largest percentage of the female workforce of 53%, the data of women in service and transport was around twice as high as the proportion of men. Then, there were higher differences between the mentioned groups in manufacturing and social services of 9% and 8%, respectively. Meanwhile, opposite patterns can be observed in the other categories since men took up higher percentages of the workforce than women.
Moving to 2003, the male workforce mostly became more popular than female one, making the gender gap narrowed down. Despite the fact that while the percentage of women workforce in service and transport decreased to only a half, the male workforce rose slightly by 6%, the data of female workforce in this sector still remained higher than the figure for male. Moreover, in social services, even though both the statistics of both groups went up marginally in 2003, the gap still followed a similar pattern in the first industry. Eventually, female labour in other categories were less common than men.