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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Failure to employ skills of home-bound educated women

Failure to employ skills of home-bound educated women

  • Domestic deskilling of women

Incidence

Mothers who take a break in their career to raise children, lose out on pay and promotion; one reason why nearly two-thirds of the UK's best educated women are employed in administrative and clerical jobs.

Broader

Underutilization of locally available skills
Presentable
Educated unemployed
Presentable
Unexplored women's skills
Unpresentable
Social isolation of women at home
Unpresentable
Wasted woman power
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Tradition-bound childcare
Excellent
Overworked women
Unpresentable
Deskilling of labour
Unpresentable

Related

Obsolete vocational skills
Presentable

Strategy

Working from home
Excellent
Improving skill base of women
Presentable

Value

Uneducated
Yet to rate
Tradition-bound
Yet to rate
Home
Yet to rate
Failure
Yet to rate
Deskilling
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #5: Gender EqualitySustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Amenities » Households
  • Education » Educational level
  • Social activity » Employers
  • Social activity » Human resources » Human resources
  • Societal problems » Failure
  • Society » Women
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    D8546
    DOCID
    11485460
    D7NID
    138091
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020