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Ethnicity and gender in the Greater Manchester labour market

Ruth Lupton By Ruth Lupton Filed Under: All posts Posted: February 6, 2020

While male employment levels are roughly equal between ethnicities, women from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to be employed than their white peers. Here, Professor Ruth Lupton explores the reasons behind this disparity, and how policy and data-based approaches can help address it. Around 75% of white men are employed, while for the larger […]

Tagged With: #OnGender, employment, gender equality, gender inequalities, Greater Manchester, inequalities, intersectionality, labour market, productivity

Striving for gender balance in the IT industry

Debra Howcroft By Debra Howcroft Filed Under: All posts Posted: January 30, 2020

Early computing was dominated by women, most often working as machine operators. Since the 1970s, however, they have been side-lined by the tech industry, replaced by higher paid men. Professor Debra Howcroft critically examines the increasingly gendered environment within the IT sector, and offers solutions to encourage women to return to the industry they played […]

Tagged With: #OnGender, diversity, fourth industrial revolution, gender equality, Industry 4.0, inequality, labour market, productivity, tech industry, technology

The gender pay gap in Greater Manchester: What it tells us and what it doesn’t tell us about gender equality

Jill Rubery By Jill Rubery Filed Under: All posts Posted: January 23, 2020

The gender pay gap is considered a key indicator of gender equality as a whole. Here, Professor Jill Rubery breaks down the data behind local and national pay disparity, and offers policy based solutions which positively affect both male and female workers. The narrower gender pay gap in Greater Manchester, compared to England as a […]

Tagged With: #OnGender, diversity, gender equality, gender inequalities, gender pay gap, Greater Manchester, inclusive growth, inequality, labour market, pay gap, productivity

Gender and occupational segregation in Greater Manchester

Francesca GainsAnna Sanders By Francesca Gains and Anna Sanders Filed Under: All posts, Devo, Growth and Inclusion Posted: January 16, 2020

Within the Greater Manchester region, the highest paid roles are typically dominated by men. In this blog, Anna Sanders and Professor Francesca Gains break down the gender ratios within several key sectors, and offer solutions to increase gender parity across the region. Men are concentrated in higher-paid occupational sectors. Two-thirds of managers, directors and senior […]

Tagged With: #OnGender, employment, gender equality, Greater Manchester, labour market, productivity

Getting gender on the devolution agenda

Francesca Gains By Francesca Gains Filed Under: All posts, Devo Posted: January 2, 2020

In this blog, Francesca Gains, Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director of Policy@Manchester, discusses the importance of including women’s voices and their experiences (in all their diversity) in devolved policymaking. As the Greater Manchester Combined Authority refreshes its strategy (Our People, Our Place) and other combined authorities develop their local strategies, it will be crucial […]

Tagged With: #OnGender, data, devolution, diversity, gender equality, Greater Manchester, inequalities, labour market, local government, productivity

In defence of trainee doctors

Jill Rubery By Jill Rubery Filed Under: Featured, Westminster Watch, Whitehall Watch Posted: October 14, 2015

Jill Rubery makes a passionate case for retaining unsocial hours compensation for trainee doctors. A recent BBC Newsnight item on the current contract dispute for trainee doctors began by asking why trainee doctors should be compensated for weekend working when Saturday was ‘just another working day’. This immediately took me back to a research project […]

Tagged With: junior doctors, labour market, WEI, working hours

miscarrages of justice

Racist attitudes – the barrier to ethnic minority employment?

Ken Clark By Ken Clark Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: June 18, 2014

Why do ethnic minorities still face discrimination in gaining employment?, asks Ken Clark. The issue of racial prejudice in British society has been in the news recently. Under the headline Racism on the rise in Britain, the Guardian reported on data from the British Social Attitudes Survey which showed that the proportion of respondents describing […]

Tagged With: employment, ethnic minority employment, labour market, racial discrimination, racial prejudice, racism

Is the picture of Pakistani self-employment really so rosy?

Ken Clark By Ken Clark Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: April 9, 2014

There is economic vibrancy in Asian-dominated areas of the UK, driven by the entrepreneurial spirit of the self-employed, according to some reports. But, says Ken Clark, analysis of official statistics reveals a rather less rosy picture.  Asian-dominated areas of the UK are booming, according to The Economist – in stark contrast to “struggling white towns”. The credit for this boom […]

Tagged With: employment, ethnicity, labour market, pakistani, self-employment

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