The data displays the unemployment rate as a percentage of the total workforce, by gender, in the UK from 2000 to 2017. The rate for women was consistently lower than that of men during this time period. With a low of 4.3% in 2004 and a high in 2012 of 7.5 percent, the trend for women is an upward one. Likewise for men, who had a low of 5.1 percent, also in 2004, and a peak in 2010 and 2011 at 8.7%.
Since 2012 both genders have experienced a negative trend to unemployment.
A similar trend occurred with monthly unemployment rates, whereby the unemployment rate of men and women dropped.
