More Women In Jobs
Wednesday 9th February
2011
OVER HALF THE JOBS IN NORTHERN
IRELAND, SCOTLAND
AND WALES HELD BY WOMEN
AS NUMBER OF WOMEN IN EMPLOYMENT IS 11.97M OUT OF TOTAL OF 24.2M
EMPLOYEES IN UK
Women should be able to work free of sexual harassment
and of sexist banter - Sky Sport is not an isolated case and
employers have a duty of care to encourage participation by all
says GMB
There are 323,100 women employees in employment aged 16 -64
resident in Northern Ireland. This amounts to 51.4% of the 628,400
of all employees in employment resident in Northern Ireland. This
means that Northern Ireland is the region with the highest
percentage of women employees in employment in the UK.
Women also hold more than half the jobs in Wales (50.9%) and
Scotland (50.4%). Overall there are 85 areas in the UK where
resident women in employment outnumber the resident men in
employment in the area. The 85 areas where women residents out
number men are Eastern; Norfolk 50.2%, Thurrock
50.1%, Bedford 50.0%, East Midlands;
Nottinghamshire 50.7%, London; Wandsworth 51.8%,
Hillingdon 51.3%, Barnet 50.3%, Bexley 50.2%, West
Midlands; Shropshire 51.3%, Herefordshire 51.2%, Dudley
50.7%, Stoke-on-Trent 50.5%, Wolverhampton 50.2%,
Warwickshire 50.1%, South Tyneside 53.9%, Redcar and
Cleveland 51.3%, Darlington 50.5%, North East;
Stockton-on-Tees 50.2%, Newcastle upon Tyne 50.1%, North
West; Knowsley 55.2%, Wirral 52.6%, Halton 52.3%,
Bury 52.2%, Liverpool 51.6%, Sefton 51.2%, St. Helens 50.9%,
Tameside 50.3%, Trafford 50.3%, Blackpool 50.2%, Stockport
50.2%,South West; Torbay 52.6%, Dorset 51.5%,
Somerset 51.3%, Devon 50.9% Poole 50.4% Gloucestershire 50.1%,
South East; Isle of Wight 53.2%, Portsmouth
52.4% East Sussex 52.2%, Brighton & Hove 50.7%, Kent 50.4%,
Oxfordshire 50.1%, Yorkshire & Humber;
Barnsley 53.1%, York 52.6%, Rotherham 51.7%, Calderdale 51.1%,
North Yorkshire 51.1%, Leeds 50.8%, East Riding of Yorkshire
50.2%, Wales: Gwynedd 55.4%, Anglesey 54.1%,
Pembrokeshire 54.0%, Merthyr Tydfil 53.7%, Conwy 53.4%, Powys
52.8%, Ceredigion 52.8%, Carmarthenshire 52.5%, Cardiff 51.9%,
Torfaen 51.8%, Denbighshire 51.3%, The Vale of Glamorgan 1.0%,
Rhondda Cynon, Taff 50.7%, Neath Port Talbot 50.4%,
Scotland; Dumfries & Galloway 54.6%,
Renfrewshire 52.8%, West Dunbartonshire 52.8%, Inverclyde
52.3%, Midlothian 52.2%, Glasgow City 52.1%, East
Dunbartonshire 51.9%, East Renfrewshire 51.9%, East Ayrshire 51.8%,
East Lothian 51.8%, Stirling 51.7%, South Lanarkshire 51.7%, South
Ayrshire 51.4%, North Ayrshire 51.4%, North Lanarkshire 51.2%,
Dundee City 51.2%, Orkney Islands 51.1%, Angus 50.9%, Perth &
Kinross 50.8%, Argyll & Bute 50.6%, Scottish Borders 50.6% and
Falkirk 50.5%.
The details of the 85 areas is contained in a PDF at the foot of
this press release on the GMB website http://www.gmb.org.uk/ where there is
set out a breakdown of male and female employment in 204 areas in
the UK. Also set out at the foot of this release are PDF's with the
regional press release for each region
In the UK as a whole there are 11.97 million women employees in
employment which is 49.4% of the 24.2 million all employees in
employment.
In London 47.3% of employees in employment are women while the
figure is between 49% and 49.8% in all the other regions in
England. A GMB analysis of the data for all regions in the UK is
set out in the table below. The data comes from the Annual
Population Survey July 2009 - June 2010 - Resident Analysis from
the Office of National Statistics.
The top 10 areas in the UK where resident women employees
outnumber resident men employees are Gwynedd 55.4%, Knowsley 55.2%,
Dumfries and Galloway 54.6%, Anglesey 54.1%, Pembrokeshire 54.0%,
South Tyneside 53.9%, Merthyr Tydfil 53.7%, Conwy 53.4%, Isle of
Wight 53.2% and Barnsley 53.1%. (see notes to editors for the
details)
By contrast at the bottom end of the league is Tower Hamlets
where 40.2% of the total 87,500 employees in employment are women.
Haringey is second from bottom with 42.1% followed by Southwark
with 43.3%, Moray 43.4%, Newham 43.5%, Reading 43.6%, Merton 43.7%,
Luton 44.8%, Redbridge and Greenwich both with 45.1%. (see notes to
editors for the details)
Male and Female aged 16 – 64 employees in employment in regions
in the UK:
|
|
|
All people
|
Male
|
Female
|
Female % of
total
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
United Kingdom
|
24,244,900
|
12,278,400
|
11,966,500
|
49.4
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
England
|
20,375,300
|
10,370,300
|
10,005,000
|
49.1
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Northern Ireland
|
628,400
|
305,300
|
323,100
|
51.4
|
|
|
Wales
|
1,098,300
|
538,900
|
559,400
|
50.9
|
|
|
Scotland
|
2,142,900
|
1,063,900
|
1,079,100
|
50.4
|
|
|
Yorkshire and The Humber
|
2,044,500
|
1,026,800
|
1,017,700
|
49.8
|
|
|
North East
|
1,004,700
|
504,800
|
499,900
|
49.8
|
|
|
North West
|
2,648,400
|
1,332,800
|
1,315,500
|
49.7
|
|
|
South West
|
2,052,000
|
1,032,800
|
1,019,200
|
49.7
|
|
|
West Midlands
|
2,053,500
|
1,038,000
|
1,015,500
|
49.5
|
|
|
South East
|
3,409,400
|
1,731,000
|
1,678,400
|
49.2
|
|
|
East
|
2,300,800
|
1,171,700
|
1,129,000
|
49.1
|
|
|
East Midlands
|
1,812,700
|
925,200
|
887,600
|
49.0
|
|
|
London
|
3,049,200
|
1,607,200
|
1,442,000
|
47.3
|
Kamaljeet Jandu, GMB national officer for equality and
diversity, said: "An increasing number of women are playing
a vital role in the economy and in the workplace while
balancing the needs of their
families. There are 85 areas in the
UKwhere women in employment outnumber
men. So what happens to women in the workplace is no longer a
minority issue.
GMB call on the government to recognise this reality in
the workplace.
Government should put in place legislation and policies
which support women at work. Barriers to women's recruitment and
promotion should be removed. At work women should receive
equal pay and have access to family friendly flexible working
arrangements. The coalition government's failure to fully implement
the Equality Act 2010 is a step in the wrong
direction.
Women should also be able to work in an environment free
of sexual harassment and any other form of sexist banter. What
happened at Sky Sport is not an isolated case and employers have a
duty of care to have cultures which are non discriminatory and
encourage participation by all."
Ends
Contact: Kamaljeet Jandu GMB National Equality
and Diversity Officer 020 8947 3131 or 07956 237178 or GMB Press
Office 07974 251823 or 07821 289880
Notes to Editors
Full
table of figures
Related release for the East
Midlands
Related release for London
Related release for the North
West
Related release for
Scotland
Related release for the South
East
Related release for the South
West
Related release for the West
Midlands
Related release
for Yorkshire & the Humber
Related release for Wales
Top 10 areas
|
|
|
Employees aged
16-64
|
|
|
|
|
All people
|
Male
|
Female
|
Female % of
total
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
United Kingdom
|
24,244,900
|
12,278,400
|
11,966,500
|
49.4
|
|
rank
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
Gwynedd
|
39,700
|
17,800
|
22,000
|
55.4
|
|
2
|
Knowsley
|
52,900
|
23,700
|
29,200
|
55.2
|
|
3
|
Dumfries & Galloway
|
55,500
|
25,100
|
30,300
|
54.6
|
|
4
|
Anglesey
|
24,600
|
11,400
|
13,300
|
54.1
|
|
5
|
Pembrokeshire
|
38,900
|
18,000
|
21,000
|
54.0
|
|
6
|
South Tyneside
|
54,700
|
25,200
|
29,500
|
53.9
|
|
7
|
Merthyr Tydfil
|
20,500
|
9,500
|
11,000
|
53.7
|
|
8
|
Conwy
|
38,400
|
17,900
|
20,500
|
53.4
|
|
9
|
Isle of Wight
|
43,400
|
20,200
|
23,100
|
53.2
|
|
10
|
Barnsley
|
87,600
|
41,000
|
46,500
|
53.1
|
|
|
Bottom 10 areas
|
|
|
|
|
|
195
|
Greenwich
|
84,900
|
46,600
|
38,300
|
45.1
|
|
196
|
Redbridge
|
92,700
|
50,900
|
41,800
|
45.1
|
|
197
|
Luton
|
69,200
|
38,200
|
31,000
|
44.8
|
|
198
|
Merton
|
85,900
|
48,400
|
37,500
|
43.7
|
|
199
|
Reading
|
69,800
|
39,400
|
30,400
|
43.6
|
|
200
|
Newham
|
86,400
|
48,800
|
37,600
|
43.5
|
|
201
|
Moray
|
37,600
|
21,300
|
16,300
|
43.4
|
|
202
|
Southwark
|
121,200
|
68,600
|
52,500
|
43.3
|
|
203
|
Haringey
|
78,400
|
45,400
|
33,000
|
42.1
|
|
204
|
Tower Hamlets
|
87,500
|
52,400
|
35,200
|
40.2
|