More women seeking work
PA Wellington More women than expected are the work-force, according to theLabour ( Department’s ‘‘Labour and Employment Gazette.” ?
A report on the labour market - said the department assumed that an inability to maintain desired living standards on existing incomes and the unemployment of some household members had caused a "secondary worker effect,” stimulating more women to seek work. The department estimated that the natural increase in the work-forte had been . 21,000 in the year to March, 1980. A further 18,900 were expected- to enter the workforce in the year to March, 1981 and another 19,800 in 1982.
On top of the natural increase, the level of participation had increased, particularly among women. The increase in female employment had been one of three main employment trends in the 13 months to May, 1980. Female employment had risen mainly; because of i net eased ■ full-time employment in the private sector and to a lesser extent because of increased part-time employment in the same sector. Male employment had declined mainly because or a drop in full-time employment in the Government sector. Employment growth over all had been weak.
The department predicted an increase in the numbers registered as unemployed or in job-crea-tion programmes in 1981.
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