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'According to Crompton and Le Feuvre women experience both horizontal and vertical segregation of work. How is this explained by Sylvia Walby and Catherine Hakim? What evidence would each of these key thinkers use to support their claims?'
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'According to Crompton and Le Feuvre women experience both horizontal and vertical segregation of work. How is this explained by Sylvia Walby and Catherine Hakim? What evidence would each of these key thinkers use to support their claims?' Women are now in more paid work than previously with a rise of 2.25 million in female workers between 1969-89, compared to a rise of only 0.5 million men. More recently about 12 million women were employed in 1998 compared with 9.9 million in 1984. However it is clear that barriers for women to enter workplace still exists. For example, Francis Sly comments that the main barrier to women going to work is childcare. Although women are going back to work it is mainly part-time work. It is also clear that women also suffer segregation in the workplace. There are significant differences in pay, for example between 1985-95 pay was increased 71% for...
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