The table below shows the percentage of men and women employed in four different types of industries in one twon in 1990, 2000, and 2010.

The table below shows the percentage of men and women employed in four different types of industries in one twon in 1990, 2000, and 2010.
The table shows the
percentage
of
men
and
women
working in four industries: retail/shops, health, manufacturing, and tourism, in 1990, 2000, and 2010. The percentages for
men
and
women
are different in each industry and change over time. In retail/shops, the
percentage
of
men
stayed the same at 13% in all three years. For
women
, the number was 7% in 1990 and slowly went up to 9% in 2010. In health, the
percentage
of
men
rose a little, from 7% in 1990 to 9% in 2010.
Women
in health started at 9% in 1990 and increased
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to 15% by 2010. In manufacturing, the
percentage
of
men
dropped a lot, from 30% in 1990 to 15% in 2010.
Women
in
this
industry started low at 8% in 1990 and fell
further
to 3% in 2010. In tourism,
men
’s
percentage
went down slightly from 13% in 1990 to 10% in 2000 and stayed the same in 2010.
Women
in tourism started at 23% in 1990 and slowly increased to 27% in 2010.
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