Research project
Gender and Employment in Local Labour Markets (GELLM)
- Start date: 1 January 2006
- End date: 31 January 2009
- Funder: European social fund and twelve co-funding partners
- Primary investigator: Professor Sue Yeandle
- Co-investigators: Professor Lisa Buckner
Sue Yeandle, Director of CIRCLE, speaking on ‘Gender and Employment in Local Labour Markets
The Gender and Employment in Local Labour Markets research programme, directed by Sue Yeandle and based in Sheffield Hallam University’s Centre for Social Inclusion, was co-funded through a major European Social Fund award and in collaboration with twelve English Local Authorities, the Equal Opportunities Commission, and the TUC.
The programme comprised a major programme of statistical analysis, reported in a series of Gender Profiles, six newLocal Research Studies (each producing a series of local reports and a synthesis report), and an extensive programme of dissemination and gender mainstreaming activities.
All reports produced during the lifetime of the project are available electronically and a new book based on the programme, Policy for A CHANGE: local labour markets and gender equality, (2009) edited by Sue Yeandle, is available from the Policy Press, Bristol.
Project Publications
Sue Yeandle directed and devised the Gender and Employment in Local Labour Marketsresearch programme, co-funded through a major European Social Fund award. Based at Sheffield Hallam University, the programme was developed in partnership with the Equal Opportunities Commission, the TUC and twelve English local authorities between 2003 and 2006.
Lisa Buckner led the GELLM statistical work, and Cinnamon Bennett led a GELLM study that focused upon women’s careers in local authorities. Christopher Price provided research support on a variety of GELLM projects.
The programme included the following reports and publications.
Gender Profiling of Twelve Local Labour Markets (2005-6)
This research presented gender-disaggregated data, by age and ethnicity that covered the following areas.
- demographics
- the gender pay gap
- educational attainment
- unemployment and economic inactivity
- employment: economic activity, occupations, industries, and travel-to-work
- work-life balance: flexible working, parental and carers’ responsibilities, and service provision
- Gender Profiling: East Staffordshire
- Gender Profiling: West Sussex
- Gender Profiling: Leicester
- Gender Profiling: Camden
- Gender Profiling: Thurrock
- Gender Profiling: Somerset
- Gender Profiling: Sandwell
- Gender Profiling: Newcastle
- Gender Profiling: Wakefield
- Gender Profiling: Southwark
- Gender Profiling: Birmingham
- Gender Profiling: Trafford
Gender and Employment in Local Labour Markets: locality reports (2006)
These reports consisted of six multi-method parallel studies across four to six local labour markets.
Working Below Potential: Women and Part-time Work, by Linda Grant, Sue Yeandle and Lisa Buckner.
- Working Below Potential: Camden
- Working Below Potential: Thurrock
- Working Below Potential: Wakefield
- Working Below Potential: West Sussex
- Working Below Potential: Leicester
Connecting Women With The Labour Market, by Linda Grant, Chris Price and Lisa Buckner.
- Connecting Women: Birmingham
- Connecting Women: Camden
- Connecting Women: Sandwell
- Connecting Women: Thurrock
- Connecting Women: Wakefield
Women’s Career Development in the Local Authority Sector, by Cinnamon Bennett, Ning Tang and Sue Yeandle.
- Women’s Career Development: Sandwell
- Women’s Career Development: Wakefield
- Women’s Career Development: Southwark
- Women’s Career Development: Leicester
Addressing Women’s Poverty: local labour markets initiatives, by Karen Escott, Chris Price and Lisa Buckner.
- Addressing Women’s Poverty: Birmingham
- Addressing Women’s Poverty: East Staffordshire
- Addressing Women’s Poverty: Newcastle
- Addressing Women’s Poverty: Somerset
- Addressing Women’s Poverty: West Sussex
- Addressing Women’s Poverty: Southwark
Local Challenges in Meeting Demand for Domiciliary Care, by Sue Yeandle, Lucy Shipton and Lisa Buckner.
- Local Challenges: Birmingham
- Local Challenges: Newcastle
- Local Challenges: Sandwell
- Local Challenges: Somerset
- Local Challenges: Thurrock
- Local Challenges: West Sussex
Ethnic Minority Women and Access to the Labour Market, by Bernadette Stiell and Ning Tang.
- Ethnic Minority Women: Camden
- Ethnic Minority Women: Newcastle
- Ethnic Minority Women: Somerset
- Ethnic Minority Women: Southwark
- Ethnic Minority Women: Leicester
Synthesis Reports
- Working Below Potential: women and part-time work
Linda Grant, Sue Yeandle and Lisa Buckner - Connecting Women With The Labour Market Executive Summary
Linda Grant and Lisa Buckner - Women’s Career Development in the Local Authority Sector
Cinnamon Bennett, Ning Tang and Sue Yeandle - Addressing Women’s Poverty: local labour markets initiatives
Karen Escott and Lisa Buckner - Local Challenges in Meeting Demand for Domiciliary Care
Sue Yeandle, Lucy Shipton and Lisa Buckner - Ethnic Minority Women and Access to the Labour Market
Sue Yeandle, Bernadette Stiell and Lisa Buckner
Executive Summaries
- About the GELLM Research Programme
Professor Sue Yeandle - Working Below Potential: women and part-time work
Linda Grant, Sue Yeandle and Lisa Buckner - Connecting Women With The Labour Market
Linda Grant and Lisa Buckner - Women’s Career Development in the Local Authority Sector
Cinnamon Bennett, Ning Tang and Sue Yeandle - Addressing Women’s Poverty: local labour markets initiatives
Karen Escott and Lisa Buckner - Local Challenges in Meeting Demand for Domiciliary Care
Sue Yeandle, Lucy Shipton and Lisa Buckner - Ethnic Minority Women and Access to the Labour Market
Sue Yeandle, Bernadette Stiell and Lisa Buckner
Final Conference Report: promoting gender equality in local labour markets (2006)
Director’s Final Report on the Gender and Employment in Local Labour Markets Research Programme (2006)
Supporting women’s engagement with their local labour markets
Papers arising from the GELLM team’s work have recently been published in the journal Local Economy Vol. 21 No. 2, in the journal’s ‘In Perspective’ section: Supporting Women’s Engagement with their Local Labour Markets (pp. 197-232). ThisIn Perspective collection comprises (due to copyright, electronic versions are not available on this website) of the following research work.
- Supporting Women’s Engagement with their Local Labour Markets: introduction, by S Yeandle.
- Women Outside Paid Employment: getting to grip with local labour markets, by L Grant, L Buckner, G Poole and C Price.
- Building Policy/Research Relationships: using innovative methodologies to engage ethnic minority women, by B Stiell, N Tang, C Bennett and C Price.
- Tackling Gender Inequality: linking research to policy making and mainstreaming,by K Escott and S Punn.
- Mainstreaming Women’s Enterprise: Yorkshire Forward’s approach, by C Bennett and M Chadwick.
Other gender and equalities reports and publications
- Childcare Systems in Post State-Socialist Countries: Comparative Cases from Brno, Szekesfehervar and Tartu (2015), by Erika Kispeter, M. Kampichler, and M. Kutsar in: Kutsar, D. and Kuronen, M. Dagmar (Eds). Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities, Springer, pp.135-148.
- Local Welfare Policy in a Centralized Governance System: Childcare and Eldercare Services in a Period of Rapid Change in Leeds (2015), by Erika Kispeter and Sue Yeandle in: Kutsar, D. and Kuronen, M. Dagmar (Eds). Local Welfare Policy Making in European Cities, Springer, pp.101-116.
- It’s the new era of shared parental leave (if you can afford to take it) (2015), comments from Jana Javornik in The Guardian
- Maternal Employment in Postsocialist Countries: Understanding the Implications of Childcare Policies (forthcoming), by Jana Javornik in: Höfacker, D., Roosalu, T. (Eds). How Gender Works? Testing Established Theories in Post-Socialist Labour Markets, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
- A childcare system fit for the future? (2015), by Jana Javornik and Jo Ingold in: Foster, L., Brunton, A., Deeming, C., Haux, T. (Eds) In Defence of Welfare II. Bristol: Policy Press, p. 75-8
- Measuring state de-familialism: Contesting post-socialist exceptionalism (2014), by Jana Javornik in Journal of European Social Policy, 24(3): 240-257.
- L’adieu au modèle de l’homme soutien de famille. Le présent postsocialiste à la lumière du passé socialiste (2014), by Jana Javornik in Politiques sociales et familiales, Dossier Genre, famille et État en Europe centrale et orientale, 115: 11-24.
- Great expectations. Dual-earner policies and the management of work–family conflict: the examples of Sweden and Slovenia (2014), by Jana Javornik and Anne Grönlund in Families, Relationships and Societies, 3(1): 51-65.
- Why UK should follow Nordics’ lead on universal childcare (2014), by Jana Javornik in The Conversation.
- Employers aren’t ready for shared parental leave (2014), by Jana Javornik in The Conversation.
- Shared parental leave is a nice idea – but will it work? (2014), by Jana Javornik in The Conversation.
- South Asian Women and the Labour Market in the UK: Attitudes, Barriers, Solutions (2012), by Andrea Wigfield and Royce Turner.
- Policy for a Change: local labour market analysis and gender equality (2009), by Sue Yeandle
- Moving on up? Ethnic minority women and work (2007), by Lisa Buckner, Sue Yeandle, with Sue Botcherby of the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC).
- Older Workers and Work-Life Balance (2005), by Sue Yeandle.
- Gender Profile of South Yorkshire’s Labour Market (2004), by Sue Yeandle, Lisa Buckner, Tony Gore and Ryan Powell.
- Thinking Gender First: gender mainstreaming in Thurrock (2003), by Sue Yeandle, Christine Booth and Diane Burns.
Public Events and Presentations from 2007
- ‘Women’s Employment in England: insights from local labour market analysis.’
Invited speaker at Gender, Class, Employment and Family Conference, City University, London, 27/28 March 2008. - ‘Ethnic Minority Women and Local Labour Market Disadvantage in England‘.
Presentation at Bristol University Seminar Series, Bristol, 13 November 2007. - Gender Equality: why women’s voices matter.
Women and Local Strategic Partnerships Event with Oxfam, LGIU London, 10 September 2007. - ‘Women and Employability: transforming lives?‘
Presentation to Women, Identity and Employability Conference, University of Teesside, 7 February 2008.