The number of women in employment since 2008 has increased by more than a quarter of a million, a 1.2pc net rise, while the number of men in work has dropped by 70,000, a 0.4pc net fall, a study of official labour market data has shown.
The analysis by The Jobs Economist, an employment consultancy which publishes the research today, claims the widespread assertion that women have been more adversely affected by austerity and job cuts than men is wrong.
Dr John Philpott, director of The Jobs Economist, said he can see no reason why the Government is focusing on trying to help get more women back to work when men appear to have been worst hit by job cuts.
His report comes less than one week after the Government’s Women’s Business Council, backed by women’s minister Maria Miller, promised to tackle the “macho culture” in the workplace and called for more stay-at-home mothers to go back to work to boost the economy.
Experts led by Ruby McGregor-Smith, the chief executive of outsourcing firm MITIE, said that “women should not just try to fit into the economy, they should be shaping it”.
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via Women ‘fared better than men’ in jobs since recession – Telegraph.
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