The table below visualizes the percentage of variations of lawyers opting for occupations in different sectors in a specific country between 2001 and 2016.
In general, government jobs accounted for the highest percentage of employment among both male and female lawyers throughout the period. Furthermore, the gap between those genders was relatively small at the beginning, but it significantly expanded time by time until 2016.
In 2001, government domains employed the largest distribution of lawyers in both genders, with 45% of men and 41% of women. The only field that proportion of males and females were congruent was business, at 14% each. Meanwhile, women slightly outweighed men in private fields, 17% compared to 15%, and other occupations, 28% versus 26%.
By 2016, the percentage of female lawyers in private lawyer and business sectors had an upturn in 21% each, while the corresponding proportion of men remained lower, at 19% and 14%. In the government field, women witnessed a modest rise at 42%, overtaking men, whose figure decreased to 38%. On the contrary, the percentage of women who employed in other domains fell to 16%, while men experienced a slight increase to 29%.