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Difference between female and male employment rates
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In most regions the male employment rate is higher than the female employment rate; it is mainly in the northern and eastern parts of Finland that the female employment rate is higher. A few regions have a balanced gender employment ratio. These include various types of municipalities: in Finland cities that have universities’ or tertiary educational opportunities, e.g. Joensuu, Helsinki, Tampere, Kuopio and Turku are prominent in this list. In Denmark only municipalities within the Copenhagen metropolitan area have a gender balanced employment ratio (Frederiksberg, Herlev, Ballerup, Tårnby and Allerød). Whereas in Sweden, a gender balanced employment ratio is only found in the municipalities of Värmland and Västra Götaland (where it is common for men to commute on a weekly basis across the border into Norway, which skews the statistical data). In Norway quite a varied mix of rural and small town municipalities in Oppland, Buskerud, Telemark, Hordaland, Sogn og Fjordane along with Troms and Finnmark have gender balanced employment ratios. In the North Atlantic, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland have no municipalities which are completely gender balanced in labour market terms. In Åland there is one municipality, Kökar, which has a higher employment rate for females.
Designer/Cartographer
Gustaf Norlén and Julien Grunfelder
Data source
NSIs, Eurostat
Published 16 February 2016
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