Statistics

Labour Market
1993 Department of Employment figures
4-5% of workforce are from ethnic minority groups

Economic Activity rates (employed, self-employed or seeking work)

Self employment

1984 Policy Studies Institute Survey
Distribution of women workers by grade

Irene Bruegel's 'Sex and Race in the Labour Market' published by the Feminist Review (No. 32 1989) quotes Greater London Council's Living Standards Survey of 1981-6:

* Hourly pay of black women in London equals 77% that of white women.

* Weekly pay of black women aged 25-54 equals 88% that of white women in same age group.

* Afro-Caribbean women more likely to work shifts than white men.

* Black mothers with partners who work are less likely to work part time than white mothers with partners who work.

* 30% of Afro-Caribbean mothers single; 10% white and 5% Asian