The data below is in a format known as tab-delimited values. You can open this file with any spreadsheet application and the data will be distributed into the appropriate rows and columns. 	

Year	Percentage women
1896	18.1
1901	19.3
1906	18.9	
1911	19.9
1916	21.8
1921	21.3
1926	20.3
1936	21.5
1945	25.7
1951	23.2
1956	23.8
1961	25.1
1966	27.3
1971	29.8
1976	32.0
1981	34.2
1986	35.9
1991	43.4
1996	45.7
2001	46.8
2006	47.5
2013	47.7
2018	47.4 


Source: Statistics NZ, Long term Data Series (LTDS), B.1.1; New Zealand official yearbook 2000; Statistics NZ Census data, ‘Hours worked in employment per week’ (various years); Statistics NZ’s NZ.Stat website: https://nzdotstat.stats.govt.nz/wbos/index.aspx#

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