Are more women missing out in the UK jobs market?
If you thought things were getting better for women in the UK jobs market, new research by the Fawcett Society warns that women are missing out on the new jobs being created by the Coalition. But if the outlook is 'bleak' how can we turn things around?
The number of unemployed women has risen dramatically since the end of the recession, with three times as many women out of work compared to men. According to the report men are claiming 60 per cent of the new private sector jobs, while the progress made for women over the last 50 years could be lost.
Back in 2011 women felt they were the target of Austerity Britain but now, even with the help of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In strategy for women, are we still on the back-foot?
This same report believes in the worst case scenario by 2018 1.48m women could be jobless - a very scary thought.