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Working Women Market Assessment 2009
Key Note Publications Ltd, June 2009, Pages: 194
This report takes an in-depth look at the lives of women aged 16 and over. In particular, it discusses their characteristics, behaviour and attitudes in terms of education, work, childcare support, money, health and leisure.
In 2008, 70.4% of UK women aged 16 to 59 were in employment. Between 1971 and 2008, the proportion of women of working age in employment rose by 14.1 percentage points. Women are much more likely than men to work part time or to have flexible working hours. However, over the period from 1998 to 2007 as a whole, the difference in average hourly earnings between men and women fell — albeit that there was a slight widening of the gap in 2008.
The authors exclusive consumer research found that almost a third of all the women surveyed would have liked to do a course or obtain a qualification to further their career, and more than a third would have liked to do so `just for fun'.
More than two in three female respondents who were in full-time work and more than half of those in part-time employment agreed that their work was a career rather than simply a job to earn money. In addition, more than eight in ten of both those in full-time work and those in part-time work said they found their job fulfilling. Nearly all of the women in part-time occupations said that they had a good work-life balance, but agreement with this statement was also high among those in full-time jobs (with nearly nine in ten saying that this applied to them). Around three-quarters of women who were working considered themselves to be treated equally to their male colleagues, although the level of agreement was marginally higher among those who worked part time than among those who worked full time. Only around one in ten women who were working part time agreed that they were willing to make social or family sacrifices to get the top — compared with just over a quarter of those in full-time jobs.
More than half of all the women who took part in the survey (both working and non-working) claimed to manage the household finances themselves rather than this being their partner's responsibility or sharing the responsibility with their partner.
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