In the United Kingdom, sex segregation of the labour market is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. Discuss.

One of the most significant social and economic developments of the twentieth century has been the entry of women into the paid labour force. The growing participation of women in the labour market has been one of the basic trends at work in virtually all industrialized nations over the last half of this century.

In the 1950s women represented 29,6 % of the civilian labour force in the United States compared to 46,9 % in 2002 (U.S. Bureau of Labour Force, 2002) the constant growth of female workers from one third (1/3) to almost half of the working population has brought significant changes in occupational segregation defined as the separation of men and women workers from each other in the occupational structure(The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, May 2003)….(short extract)