I de to øvrige lande, Tyskland og Storbritannien, var den M-formede kurve blevet langt mindre udtalt i 1991, men der var dog stadig tegn på, at kvinder afbrød deres erhvervskarriere mellem de 25 og de 40 år.
In the other two countries, Germany and the UK, although the M-shape of the curve had become much less pronounced by 1991, there were still traces of interruption to women's working careers between 25 and 40.