The table illustrates the shift in the proportion of lawyers participating in four sectors in a specific country throughout the period of 15 year, starting from 2001.
Overall, most lawyers chose to work in the government system, additionally, private lawyers and business witnessed an upward trend for both genders while government sector and others saw a fluctuation in their figures.
On the one hand, the percentage of male lawyers chose to work independently increased gradually from 15% in 2001 to 19% in 2016 and accounted for nearly one-fifth. As a counterpart, private female lawyers went up by 2% and stood at 21%, which was similarly one-fifth although the female rate was 2% higher than male. At the equality of 14% of both genders initially, female lawyers rose to 21% while male remained consistently their modest percentage through 15 years.
On the other hand, the proportion of lawyers deciding to work in the government reached the table’s peak since it made up approximately a half, 45% male lawyers in 2001 and 41% females; however, the percentage of male saw a sharp decline of 7% to hold 38% in 2016 despite the steep increase by 1% in female lawyers. Others sector fluctuated by a narrow margin between 26% and 29% for male, meanwhile, female decreased significantly by 8% to 16%, a half compared to female’s peak figure.