Future UK workforce to consist 'predominantly of women'

06/01/2010

A report has suggested that females will recover from the recession more quickly than males in terms of finding work.

A report has suggested that females will recover from the recession more quickly than males in terms of finding work.

Conservative think tank The Policy Exchange, has said that within four years the workforce in the UK will consist predominantly of women with men playing "second fiddle".

Neil O'Brien, director of Policy Exchange, said: "We are having a Full Monty-style recession with women faring much better than men.

"As Britain has lost industrial jobs over the last couple of decades, the number of men in work has collapsed and the numbers on benefits soared. The current recession is accelerating this trend further."

He added: "Britain faces a big problem here. It seems that men are either not getting - or don't want - the kinds of service sector jobs that have been created in recent years. That has to change."

The film ‘Full Monty’ follows a group of unemployed steel workers in Sheffield who became strippers to earn extra cash.

Because men have traditionally been employed in the manufacturing industry and women worked in service industries, men have been more heavily affected by the decline in British manufacturing.

Women are also looking to start families later in life than in previous years.

 

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