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The Full Monty: Men into Women’s Work?

In: Equality, Diversity and Disadvantage in Employment

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  • Irene Bruegel

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Ed Balls, the advisor to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, saw British men as having lost ‘the battle of the sexes’ for jobs by the mid-1990s (Balls, 1994; Coward, 1999). Indeed, in certain areas of Britain, women are as likely to have a job as men (Benn, 1998). Unemployment trends, especially for the less-qualified, certainly give the impression that men in Britain are losing out in the share of all the jobs available. Feminisation of employment does not spell the feminisation of power, but some writers have suggested it means the feminisation of men (McDowell, 1991), whilst others argue that it may signal a shift in gender relations (Bradley, 1998). The British Equal Opportunities Commission have increasingly taken up complaints from men about sex discrimination (EOC, 1996).

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  • Irene Bruegel, 2001. "The Full Monty: Men into Women’s Work?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Mike Noon & Emmanuel Ogbonna (ed.), Equality, Diversity and Disadvantage in Employment, chapter 13, pages 208-228, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-97788-0_13
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333977880_13
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