Engendering economic statistics

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Engendering economic statistics

• General issues
• Gerry Brady, CSO Ireland

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Objective

• Issue is equal opportunity to work and equal
  conditions rather than equal employment rates
• Individual discretion to make personal life
  choices with regard to employment are important
  societal conventions restrict these

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Environment barriers

• In disability, environmental barriers are factors
  such as inaccessible transport, no lifts, lack of
  special tuition etc.
• These are the problems rather than the problem
  being a wheelchair or having a learning difficulty

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Gender work barriers

• e.g.
• Attitudes of other people
• Factors limiting educational attainment
• Inequal access to transport
• Imposed care obligations
• Expected role in family life

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Barriers within paid employment

• Inflexible working arrangments
• Work consequences of having a baby
• Limited IT access to workplace from home
• Attitudes of work colleagues
• Lack of women in managerial and decision-making
  positions within the company

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Consequences for women

• Lower employment rates
• Lower pay
• Less satisfying work
• Pensions pressure towards later retirement if
  earlier absences from work

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Specific topics

• Self-employment and entrepreneurship
• Occupations
• Pay and Working hours
• Formal vs informal employment
• Social security pension contributions
• Employment security
• Decision-making

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Entrepreneurship

• Issues
• Willingness to become an entrepreneur
• Economic areas women become entrepreneurs in
• State and loan funding for women entrepreneurs
• Access to networks

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Specific topics ctd.

• The relevance and importance of specific
  employment varies depending on the economic and
  statistical development of the country