The two decades between 1975 and 1995 brought significant changes in the representation of women in Freedonia's workforce, according to the graphs.
In 1975, for example, some 300 000 men and 250 000 women worked in the communications sector. Twenty years later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550,000.
A similar situation was seen in the wholesale and retail trade sector, where women rose from about 550,000 in 1975 to almost 800,000 two decades later. The number of men in this sector remained stable, at around 700,000.
Women also made gains in both the finance/banking industries and in the defence-related public sector. Whereas some 125,000 women worked in finance and banking institutions in 1975, the number increased to 450,000 by 1995. The number of men grew only marginally from 425,000 to 480,000 over the same period. In defence, men declined from 225,000 to 200,000, while women rose from 25,000 to over 100,000.
Two sectors that retained stable employment numbers for both men and women were manufacturing, which had about 300,000 women and 650,000 men in both surveyed years, and the public sector (non-defence), which employed 650,000 women and 850,000 men.
Thus, women appear to have made gains in the Freedonian workforce but not at the expense of men.
图表显示,1975 年至1995 年的二十年间,女性在Freedonian劳动力中的比例发生了重大变化。
例如,1975 年约有30 万男性和25万女性在通信部门工作。20 年后,虽然男性人数没有变化,但女性人数却增加到了55万。
批发和零售业也出现了类似的情况,女性人数从1975年的约55万增加到20年后的近80万。该行业的男性人数保持稳定,约为70 万人。
女性在金融/银行业和与国防有关的公共部门的人数也有所增加。1975 年,约有12.5万名女性在金融和银行机构工作,到1995 年,这一数字增加到45万人。同期,男性人数从42.5万人增至48万人,增长幅度很小。在国防部门,男性从22.5万下降到20万,而女性则从2.5万上升到10多万。
男女就业人数均保持稳定的两个部门是制造业和公共部门(非国防部门),前者在两个调查年份中分别雇用了约30万名女性和65万名男性,后者雇用了65万名女性和5万名男性。
因此,女性在Freedonian劳动力中似乎有所增长,但并非以减少男性为代价。