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In the United Kingdom, sex segregation of the labour market is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. Discuss.
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In the United Kingdom, sex segregation of the labour market is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. Discuss. The role of women in the labour market has changed dramatically in the last decades. In the 1950's, when more than half of the male population were working, only a little more than a third of the female population were economically active. In the UK, in the year 2002, 84% of the male population and 73% of the female population were economically active (Irwing, 2003). Although there is an obvious increase in the number of women in the labour market, the majority of women are still concentrated in low pay, low status and gender segregated jobs (Davidson et al., 1993). Many procedures have taken place to give equal opportunities to both of the sexes such as legislations or special provisions to help women balance their lives between work and family, but...
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