The data displays the monthly unemployment rate as a percentage of the total workforce, by gender, for the ages 50 and older in the UK from 2000 to 2017. The difference between the unemployment rates of men and women has, during this time period, varied from 2.7% in 2009 to 0.9% in 2006. Women always having the lower rate in comparison to males. The peak for women was in 2013 at 3.9% while the highest figure for men was in 2009, 2010 and 2011 at 5.7%. In the most recent surveyed time period, the unemployment rate for males was at 3.
