UK: Who is getting made redundant?

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'It has become received wisdom that women are much more likely than men to lose their jobs in the current downturn. But is it true? It sounds so plausible - women make up a larger proportion of the public sector where the cuts are biting. And the latest unemployment figures do show that of the 28,000 rise in jobless in the latest figures, 22,000 are women.

But that doesn't mean more women lost their jobs. In fact, more women have won jobs - the female employment rate in Britain has risen. In the year to last autumn, an additional 32,000 women were in work and experts say the trend has continued since then.
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What the stats don't show is that women are more likely to receive a redundancy notice than men. On the contrary, it is men who have experienced a fall in employment over the past year. Despite cuts to a female-dominated public sector, it is male workers who appear to be getting the chop.
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There is a bit of a mystery here and one which the CIPD acknowledges. "Why ongoing job losses in the public sector are not hitting women harder than men is an interesting question, and one to which the answer is not immediately apparent," they told me today, expressing frustration that official ONS public/private job stats don't have a gender breakdown.'