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Look, Crocky - a study:
Moving Down: Women’s Part-time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991–2001, by Sara Connolly, Mary Gregory.
They found that women who change to a part time job - those being mostly mothers during childcare years - from their full-time job usually end up with a job far below their level of skill and of training. That does not happen because mothers want easier jobs to be able to concentrate on their children, but because so little part-time opportunities exist in interdemediate and upper levels and they are thus forced out of those jobs. So most women in part-time jobs are wasting their training and knowledge on low-status, low-reward, low-skill jobs, which is snappily called a "hidden brain-drain".
Rather alarming, especially considering how unlikely it is that there will be greater flexibility any time soon - apart from in the social sector.
Moving Down: Women’s Part-time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991–2001, by Sara Connolly, Mary Gregory.
They found that women who change to a part time job - those being mostly mothers during childcare years - from their full-time job usually end up with a job far below their level of skill and of training. That does not happen because mothers want easier jobs to be able to concentrate on their children, but because so little part-time opportunities exist in interdemediate and upper levels and they are thus forced out of those jobs. So most women in part-time jobs are wasting their training and knowledge on low-status, low-reward, low-skill jobs, which is snappily called a "hidden brain-drain".
( They conclude... )
Rather alarming, especially considering how unlikely it is that there will be greater flexibility any time soon - apart from in the social sector.
