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Women Forced to Take Two Jobs
September 2007
Rising mortgages rates and shrinking pay packets in real terms have triggered a sharp increase in the number of people forced into taking second jobs.
More than 1.1 million now have two jobs, a rise of nearly four per cent in the past two years. The rise is concentrated entirely among women workers, with a small drop in the number of men with a second job.
In mid-2005, there were 605,000 women working two jobs, but figures published last week showed that this number rose to 649,000, by the middle of this year.
Over the same period the number of two-job men declined from 462,000 to 456,000. In total 1,067 million people had two jobs in mid-2005 against 1.106 million at present.
Twenty years ago only 845,000 people had second jobs.
Government figures show that real household disposable income fell by 0.3 per cent during the first quarter of this year compared with the last quarter of 2006. Figures for the second quarter, due on September 26, are expected to show the trend continuing, as pay rises have lagged price increases.
“The key factors promoting this are probably the rises in mortgage costs as well as general price inflation”, said Adam Lent, head of economics at the Trades Union Congress. “We are very concerned about this. The impact on work/life balance can be intense”.
Traditionally, care workers, cleaners, postal staff and firemen have been among those most likely to take a second job, Not only has the number of people with second jobs increased recently, but so have the hours that they work in that job.
After declining from an average of 9.6 hours a week in the three months to the end of last January to 9.2 hours in the subsequent three months, the figure has risen to 9.3 hours in the three months to the end of July.
Source: Financial Mail
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