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Women Want Work: "Want work" levels and women's labour market participation

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The way the monthly labour market figures are constructed understates the shortage of jobs and does so in a way that in particular understates the number of women who want jobs but cannot get them. The number of women in paid work (and who are therefore less likely to be poor and more likely to have greater economic independence) has been rising over several decades but this progress slowed down dramatically at the end of the 90s and is glacial now, despite the overall improvements in the headline figures for employment and unemployment.

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