Employment rates of women: by marital status and age of youngest dependent child, UK, 2008
• 16.0 million men and 13.6 million women were in employment in the UK in the second quarter of 2008. (Table 4.2)
• Lone mothers in the UK with a child aged under five were less likely to be working than those who had a partner, 35 per cent compared with 63 per cent in Q2 2008. (Table 4.3)
• The gap in employment rates between working-age men and women in the UK was the smallest gap on record in the second quarter of 2008, at 8 percentage points. In the same quarter from 1992 to 2007 it varied between 9 and 11 percentage points. (Figure 4.5) Latest information on employment and unemployment rates
• Almost one-fifth (18 per cent) of full-time employees in the UK usually worked more than 48 hours a week in the second quarter of 2008. (Table 4.12)
• The unemployment rate for working-age lone parents in the UK in Q2 2008 (12 per cent) was higher than the rate for married or cohabiting parents (3 per cent). (Table 4.17)
• In 2007, 1.041 million working days in the UK were lost because of labour disputes, only the third time since 1990 that days lost reached one million. (Figure 4.21)
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