Employment rate in the UK 1971-2023, by gender
In the fourth quarter of 2023, the employment rate for men aged between 16 and 64 in the United Kingdom was 78.1 percent, while for women it was 72.1 percent. The male employment rate has consistently been higher than that of females in this provided time period, although the gap was much greater at the start of this period in the early 1970s, when the male employment rate was 92.1 percent, and the female employment rate 52.8 percent.