The table illustrates the employment rates of females and males in retailing, healthcare, manufacture, and tourism in a town between 1990 and 2010.
Overall, throughout the two-decade period, the employment rates of males tended to decline in most industries, except for tourism, while females showed a higher participation over the years. Notably, industrial jobs were more popular among males, while tourism-related jobs attracted the highest proportion of female employees.
Regarding males, by 1990, nearly 30% of men worked in factories, the highest figure on the chart. This was followed by retailing and tourism, each making up 13%. Finally, healthcare was the least common sector among males at that time, attracting only 7% of total men. In the following years, the proportion of males working in factories consistently declined to just 10% by 2010, matching the figure for tourism, which also declined during the same time frame. In contrast, male participation in healthcare increased, reaching 9% by 2010, whereas the proportion of retailing jobs remained unchanged at 13% over the period.
Conversely, female participation had become more prevalent over the time, with the most significant growth in healthcare, nearly doubling from 9% to 15% between 1990 and 2010. Tourism and retailing also witnessed growth, slightly rising from 7% to 9%, and 23% to 27% during 1990-2010, respectively. Manufacturing jobs made up the lowest percentage of females at 7% by 1990, and it then declined further to 3%, making it the least attractive sector for women.