Abstract
This paper describes the background and history of the 1980 Women and Employment Survey (WES) and, 25 years on, assesses the role the survey played both in the social science community and for policy and practice as a result of its important key findings and methodological innovations. By the end of the 1970s there had been not only an increase in women's employment but more especially an increased interest in women's equality and employment issues. WES is thus set against the background of labour market and legislative change as well as the rapidly developing role of social science in government. We describe the drivers for the survey and show how WES broke new ground in a number of areas. In particular WES collected complete retrospective life and work histories providing a lifetime perspective of women's employment and allowing employment patterns for different cohorts of women to be compared. This paper illustrates some of the key findings of the main methodological developments.
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