The data displays the monthly unemployment rate as a percentage of the total workforce, by gender, in the UK from January 2014 to April 2018. The difference between the unemployment rates of men and women has, during this period, varied from 1.1% to 0.1 percent, with women always having the lower rate in comparison to men. The trend for men saw a net decrease, shrinking from 7.2% unemployment rate in January 2014 to 4.2% in April 2018. Unemployment rate for women also saw a net decrease, with 4.1% of women unemployed in July 2017, compared with 5.
