The Full Monty: Men into Women’s Work?

Irene Bruegel

Chapter 13 in Equality, Diversity and Disadvantage in Employment, 2001, pp 208-228 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Ed Balls, the advisor to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, saw British men as having lost ‘the battle of the sexes’ for jobs by the mid-1990s (Balls, 1994; Coward, 1999). Indeed, in certain areas of Britain, women are as likely to have a job as men (Benn, 1998). Unemployment trends, especially for the less-qualified, certainly give the impression that men in Britain are losing out in the share of all the jobs available. Feminisation of employment does not spell the feminisation of power, but some writers have suggested it means the feminisation of men (McDowell, 1991), whilst others argue that it may signal a shift in gender relations (Bradley, 1998). The British Equal Opportunities Commission have increasingly taken up complaints from men about sex discrimination (EOC, 1996).

Keywords: Labour Market; Labour Force Survey; Occupational Segregation; Male Flight; Equal Opportunity Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780333977880_13

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