The chart below shows the percentage of difference in income between men and women from 1978 to 2008. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart gives information about the differences in the amount of income between men and women in 5 countries from 1978 and 2008.

Overall

, there have been considerable changes over the period of 30 years, the most noticeable is that the profit between

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genders showed a downward trend,

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only in Australia it showed an upward trend. In 1978, the difference

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Australia and France gained

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score of almost 20 per cent and after that, for 20 years it remained steady.

However

, in 1998 Australia showed a dramatic increase in the income between males and females and in 2008 reached a peak

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25 per cent,

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other countries tried to minimize that statistics. The salary difference

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the USA and UK in 1978 was mediocre and it is obvious that the percentage steadily declined over the period. The highest variance over the period was accomplished by Japan, where the males had salaries twice bigger

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females

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the females

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