Society has grown to have differences between men and women with greater emphasis of inequality on women.
There is evidence to suggest that women generally tend not to work in skilled jobs in the construction and engineering sectors and few men working in secretarial positions (1996 Labour Force Survey) does this mean that men are more skilled than women. Early research and theorists assumed than inequalities were biologically determined and as a result this natural ability could not be changed. Female employment has tended to increase over the years and they form 44% of all wage earners, (A-level Sociology, 1995). Also, the passing of the legislation act in the 1990s ensured that an improvement, although not equality, in earnings for women. We, now, also tend to see women increasingly holding positions of importance (e.g. a female monarch and a recent female Prime Minister). Despite this women do tend to occupy the less well paid jobs with opportunities of a lesser degree to that of men, which is shown by the fact that few employers have amenities to facilitate female employees with young children.
The department of education released figures showing how women in paid employment had increased from barely 40% in 1971 to well over 55% in 2001.
But why has female employment actually increased? From after the 2nd World War there was high demand for labour to rebuild Britain. Here, women entered factories and tended to remain there. During the 60's birth rates were falling and so women could return to work early. Slowly demand for entertainment and leisure also increased and women took up this opportunity as additional income to satisfy there needs. As a result the number of women entering the labor force increased.
Some of the economic cases are due to increased demand during economic causes and cheap dispensable...
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