The Distributions of Women’s Employment

Shirley Dex
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Shirley Dex: University of Keele

Chapter 2 in Women’s Occupational Mobility, 1987, pp 5-27 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1983, 8.8 million women were employed in Britain; 5 million in full-time jobs and 3.8 million in part-time jobs. The full-time figure is a slight decrease on the 1971 figure of 5.5 million although the size of the women’s part-time labour force increased by one million, from 2.8 million in 1971. Women’s unemployment also grew during the 1970s from 280700 in 1976 to 854000 in 1983.1 The size of the women’s labour force as a whole has grown over the post-war period, therefore, and it continued to grow through the 1970s and 1980s recession.

Keywords: Labour Market; Class Analysis; Class Structure; Occupational Segregation; Secondary Sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-18572-6_2

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