On why the gender employment gap in Britain has stalled since the early 1990s
Razzu, Giovanni and Singleton, Carl and Mitchell, Mark (2020) On why the gender employment gap in Britain has stalled since the early 1990s. Industrial Relations Journal, 51 (6). pp. 476-501. ISSN 0019-8692 (https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12309)
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Abstract
Using over four decades of British micro data, this article looks at how the narrowing gender employment gap stalled in the early 1990s. Changes to the structure of employment between and within industry sectors impacted the gap at approximately constant rates throughout the period and do not account for the stall. Instead, changes to how women's likelihood of paid work was affected by their partners' characteristics explain most of the gap's shift in trend. Increases in women's employment when they had children or achieved higher qualifications continued to narrow the gap even after it had stalled overall.
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Item type: Article ID code: 74836 Dates: DateEvent25 November 2020Published21 September 2020Published Online7 September 2020AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences > Economic History and Conditions Department: Strathclyde Business School > Economics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 09 Dec 2020 12:26 Last modified: 02 Jul 2024 21:34 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/74836