'More women will be working than men within four years'
More women will be working than men within four years due to recession, creating a "Full Monty" effect, a British think-tank has predicted.
"We are having a Full Monty-style recession with women faring much better than men. As Britain has lost industrial jobs over the last couple of decades, the number of men in work has collapsed, and the numbers on benefits soared. The current recession is accelerating this trend further," The Telegraph quoted Neil O'Brien, director of Policy Exchange, as saying.
Official figures show that the number of men of working age with jobs has fallen from 92 per cent in 1971 to 75 per cent, while the number of women who are employed has risen from 56 per cent to 69 per cent, narrowing the gap between women and men to 6 per cent.
The recession has had a disproportionate effect on men, with the number of women in employment increasing since June, while the number of men has continued to fall.
The 1997 film 'Full Monty' is a story of a group of unemployed steel workers in Sheffield who became strippers.
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