Salary distributions in a factory. A manufacturing company is reviewing the salaries of its full-time employees below the executive level at a large plant. The clerical staff is almost entirely female, while the majority of the production workers and technical staff is mail. As a result, the distributions of salaries for male and female employees may be quite different. Use the table that is given to give the counts in percent of women and men in each salary class. Make histograms From these data, choosing the type that is most appropriate for comparing the two distributions. Then describe the overall shape of each salary distribution and the chief differences between them.

TABLE 1.7 Size and length of bear markets ..... .1.... Decline Duration Decline Duration Year (percent) (months) Year (percent) (months) 1940-1942 42 28 1968-1970 36 18 1946 27 5 1973-1974 48 21 1950 14 1 1981-1982 26 19 1953 15 8 1983-1984 14 10 1955 10 1987 34 3 1956-1957 22 15 1990 20 3 1959-1960 14 15 1998 19 1962 26 6 2000-2002 47 26 1966 22 8