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BEST Writing Task 1 IELTS Academic, 3rd November
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
IELTS ACADEMIC WRITING TASK 1
The chart below shows the percentage of difference in income between men and women from 1978 to 2008. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
SAMPLE ANSWER
The line chart provides an overview of the income gap between males and females in five developed countries (namely Japan, US, France, UK and Australia) from 1978 to 2008.
Overall, it can clearly be seen that most of the countries mentioned managed to reduce the income difference between genders over the given period, except for Australia. It is also interesting to realize that Japan had the highest income gap of all.
According to the data source, there was a significant difference of 50% in income earned by an average Japanese man compared to his opposite sex fellow. However, this figure went down remarkably over the 30-year period, settling at just over 40% in 2008.
Likewise, other nations including the US, the UK and France all made huge effort to narrow down the income gap among sexes. To be more specific, the US and the UK drove the gap down from approximately 30% in 1978 to around 28% 30 years later; whereas France made a marginal change from 20% to about 18% in 2008. Australia, on the other hand, started off the period with around 18% and succeeded in staying at that level for 20 years, before surprisingly peaking at nearly 24% in 2008.
