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Breadwinner Men and the Gentle Invaders SPRC Conference 2013 Sue Richardson Josh Healy

Breadwinner Men and the Gentle Invaders SPRC Conference 2013 Sue Richardson Josh Healy. How are men faring in the labour market? . T oday compared with 1980s Today compared with women Employment Earnings Contribution to family income M arriage. The Issues. Concern that

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Breadwinner Men and the Gentle Invaders SPRC Conference 2013 Sue Richardson Josh Healy

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  1. Breadwinner Men and the Gentle InvadersSPRC Conference 2013Sue RichardsonJosh Healy

  2. How are men faring in the labour market? • Today compared with 1980sToday compared with women • Employment • Earnings • Contribution to family income • Marriage

  3. The Issues • Concern that • The changing labour market has seen large falls in jobs for lower educated men • That men are not adapting well to these changes • That women rather than men are increasing their education and taking the new jobs • And becoming the breadwinners • That working age men are increasingly becoming non-employed, or employed part-time • That low education men are less able to support a family and attract a mate

  4. Gender shares of total hours worked1978 and 2013per cent

  5. Employment to population ratio by ageMen: 1978 and 2013

  6. Employment to population ratioFemale: 1978 and 2013

  7. Fulltime employment to population ratioby sex and age group: 1978 and 2013

  8. Changes from one cohort to the next: Men1979-2012

  9. Changes from one cohort to the next: Women1979-2012

  10. Levels of education: aged 30-49% of age group with each level of education

  11. Is the decline in men’s share of work focussed on the low education men?

  12. An important bit of background

  13. The annual earnings distribution for men has become more unequal

  14. A quite different picture for women

  15. Women’s earnings growing faster

  16. Low education groups doing OK

  17. Men’s share of high end employment, hours, earnings have all fallen

  18. Breadwinner women on the move • Percentage of persons in income units where a female has the highest annual earnings

  19. And shouldering more of the breadwinning task • Female share of total annual earnings (%)

  20. Female share in couples with earnings Share : no qualifications % Share: graduates %

  21. Are men still marriageable?

  22. Are non-employed men (aged 30-49) ‘invading’ the domestic sphere?

  23. Men are not doing as well today as they were 30 years ago • E/pop, especially fulltime employment, has fallen • Each generation has had a lower FT employment rate • Annual earnings have become substantially less equal • And have risen only in the last decade • Their share of managerial/professional employment has fallen • And high education men have had almost no growth in annual earnings • Low education men less likely to be employed, but if employed, annual earning have risen • But less likely to be married

  24. Women competing and sharing • Large growth in education, especially at graduate level • Increasing share of • Total earnings • Hours worked • Full time work • High end jobs • Especially for prime age and older women • Employment share exceeds hours and earnings shares • Now contributing substantially more to family income • Especially if a graduate • And ceding a little of the domestic and child work to men

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