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This qualitative research examines: influences on women's employment choices, perceptions and experiences; attitudes to training and employment of women in sectors identified as areas of growth by GLA Economics (financial services; legal services; ICT; creative and media; and administration); work and employment practices that form barriers to equality in these sectors; and other specific policies and practice, including best practice.
This research for the Greater London Authority (GLA) showed that by 2016, it was expected that women would fill seven out of ten new jobs in London, with an extra half a million jobs in the capital. The main key sectors for growth in women's employment during the decade were predicted to be in business service and also health, education, and retail. The GLA commissioned IES to carry out and report on the qualitative research detailed in this report.
This publication is no longer available. Care to Learn is a UK government initiative that provides financial support for teenage parents who want to continue in, or return to learning. It helps with the cost of their childcare and travel. This is the second in a series of reports designed to provide an evaluation of the first three years of Care to Learn. It focuses on the operation and impact of the initiative over the 2003-04 academic year.
This research explores the role of recruitment intermediaries and some of the factors that are affecting them, alongside the changes in the recruitment market. Intermediaries face threats to business: the growth of e-recruitment and shared services in organisations, for example.
The film and TV industry has a poor record on diversity. There is low representation of minority groups, particularly those from minority ethnic backgrounds, in the workforce, and in content and portrayal. This is a preliminary study that gathers known literature, industry data, expert views and primary data (both quantitative and qualitative) on the independent production sector within both the film sector and the TV sector.
In November 2002, the Women and Equality Unit published Key Indicators of Women's Position in Britain (2002). It provided a set of key indicators across many aspects of women's lives, established benchmarks against which women's progress could be measured over time, and presented factual material to feed into public debate and policy-making. This report provides updates to the tables and figures presented in Key Indicators (2002), using the most recently available data at the time of writing. This publication is no longer available.
The Annual Small Business Survey 2003 was a telephone survey of over 8,000 small and medium-sized businesses in the UK. Its main purpose was to gauge the needs and concerns of small businesses and identify the barriers which prevented them from fulfilling their potential.
This guide is designed as an introduction to socio-economic research for the broader community of research users. It will be of use to research funders, research hosts, research evaluators and reviewers, legal professionals providing advice to researchers, employers and managers of researchers and those involved, both as teachers and as students, in research training, as well as the broad community of socio-economic researchers themselves.
This report presents results of a survey of 3,431 individual beneficiaries who left projects supported under ESF Objective 3 in England during the latter part of 2002. There was considerable variety between different kinds and circumstances of beneficiary, but underpinned by fairly widespread experience of disadvantage across much of the cohort.
Socio-economic research involves the collection and other further processing of personal data. The processing of personal data is regulated by law, and the researchers have therefore to comply with these legal requirements. These guidelines have been drafted taking into account Directive 95/46/CE and the national legislation of most of the current Member States of the European Union that implement it. They outline the general principles governing data protection, provide for key concept descriptions, and include a series of recommendations, allowing the researcher to take into consideration the various requirements in the field of data protection.
