Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Black Caribbean women experience significant difficulties in getting jobs and progressing within them, and tend to be segregated into certain types of work, a two year investigation by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) has discovered. This is despite leaving school with similar aspirations to white girls and similar or better qualifications than white boys.
“Time after time,” said EOC chair Jenny Watson, “women told us about the ‘unwritten rules’ in their workplace, hidden barriers that prevent them from realising these ambitions.”
In areas with above average numbers of black and Asian women in the labour market, the EOC found them to be absent from three-out-of-ten workplaces and unrepresented in almost three-out-of-five.
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