Recent research from the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics suggests that the percentage of young women in the workplace in the UK has fallen for the first time in three generations (see Figure 1). In 2013, around 70% of women born between 1985 and 1994 had a job by the time they were 23 or 24 — down marginally on the decade beforehand.
It is the first time in the post-war period that female employment in the UK has actually declined. The change has been interpreted to suggest that the wider female drive for equality in the workplace has also stalled. Alan Manning, author of the research, commented: ‘It is fairly clear that the view people had for a long time — that men and women were heading towards equality in their working lives — is not happening.’
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