Comment:

Table 2l suggests that unemployed women are much more likely than men to be re-entrants to the labour force; slightly more likely to be new entrants or job-leavers; and less likely to be job-losers, However, another analysis of the same figures shows that women represent:

• 32% of all job losers
• 47% of all job leavers
• 60% of all new entrants
• 63% of all re-entrants
• and 44% of all unemployed persons,

It is apparent that both men and women in the lower educational groups are more likely to lose their jobs and that the tendency to leave a job increases with increases in education.

Unemployed part-time women workers are likely to be re-entrants to the labour force. Unemployed full-time women are evenly divided.

Women who lose their job tend to be unemployed longer than other groups

The reasons for leaving a job are interesting: Women leave more often than men because of personal or family responsibilities and as a result of changing residence, Presumably this last reason is the result of having to quit a job to move with a husband who is transferred, More men than women are dissatisfied and more men quit for no particular reason.

^1. A job loser is anyone who was fired or laid-off from their former job and who began looking for work immediately and was still looking at the time of the survey.

^2. A job leaver is anyone who voluntarily left their former job and who started looking for work immediately and was still looking at the time of the survey.

^3. A new entrant is anyone who has never been in the labour force at any previous time.

^4. A re-entrant is anyone who has previously been a member of the labour force and who is returning after a period of absence.