However, these differences remained positive and became larger for women (i.e. foreign-born women became even less likely to participate in the labour force or to be employed in comparison with native women, see Figure 3.2B). Such gender differences may reflect various factors, including the unequal distribution of unpaid care and household work between women and men and sectoral employment patterns (ILO, 2016b) which will be discussed in later sections. In 2010, the employment-to-population ratio was 9.5 percentage points higher for Ghanaian-bom women, and foreign-bom women experienced a relatively high unemployment rate at 8.2%, compared with 5.8% for native-bom women.