- British women in the professional, scientific and technical sector are thriving the most!
- Those who work in the real estate sector place second with an index score of 88.04/100
- Women see the fewest opportunities in the ‘mining and quarrying’ industry
- Women in water supply, sewerage and waste industries are paid 17.13% more than men
Women’s progress in the workplace has seen a great deal of uncertainty, not least because of the problems of gender equality in various sectors, but problems that the pandemic has also intensified.
Interested in women’s progress in the workplace, Reboot Digital PR Agency sought to determine which UK industry women are thriving in the most by evaluating the factors of female representation, women in higher positions, gender pay gap, individual female bonuses, health conditions, apprenticeship differences, and female redundancies**. Please see the blog for more information and full data breakdown.- To conclude the research, a final score was established by normalising the data using the average percentrank.inc function and giving an average weighted score for each industry.
- 8. Data was collected on 21st September 2021 and is subject to change.**The study is based only on people that were employed, self-employed or in Government schemes at the time of survey and were made redundant in the last 3 months. The variable does not represent the redundancy rate in the UK.
The five industries where women are thriving the least
| Ranking | Industry | Overall Score /100 |
| 1 | Mining and quarrying | 30.04 |
| 2 | Construction | 48.68 |
| 3 | Transport and storage | 51.79 |
| 4 | Electricity, gas, air condition supply | 53.86 |
| 5 | Education | 60.07 |
Methodology:
- Reboot Digital PR Agency conducted an index study with the aim of identifying the industry that women thrive in the most.
- This study analyses quarterly data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) from April to June 2021 based on a sample of 87,904 individuals, which studies employment circumstances of the UK population.
- The sample was filtered by employment status focusing on employees, self-employed, government scheme and unpaid family workers.
- An index was constructed to measure and identify industries with the highest female representation, most females in high positions (managers, directors and senior officials), most female individual bonuses obtained, females with fewest health conditions, lowest gender pay gap, lowest gender gap in number with apprenticeships and lowest female redundancies. The gender pay gap difference has been calculated based on the average gross hourly pay of females and males.
- To ensure the survey samples are representative of the population they describe, population weighting variables (PWT20 and PIWT20 for hourpay) provided by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and contained within the LFS dataset were used.
- To conclude the research, a final score was established by normalising the data using the average percentrank.inc function and giving an average weighted score for each industry.
- Data was collected on 21st September 2021 and is subject to change.
- To conclude the research, a final score was established by normalising the data using the average percentrank.inc function and giving an average weighted score for each industry.
- 8. Data was collected on 21st September 2021 and is subject to change.**The study is based only on people that were employed, self-employed or in Government schemes at the time of survey and were made redundant in the last 3 months. The variable does not represent the redundancy rate in the UK.
