Impacts of Globalisation on people UK

Question 1

impacts on women

Answer 1

• women are more equal in the jobs market
• women in the UK have increased job opportunities in flexible, part time employment especially in retail sector
• as male dominated employment of the past has declined, this has led to increased pressure on women in the developed world to have jobs

Question 2

impacts on men

Answer 2

• men in the east end of London have reduced access to secondary jobs in car manufacturing that their fathers did
• in the UK, fewer full time jobs in secondary industries, and more part time tertiary jobs than 50 years ago
• whole areas, such as the Welsh Valleys have unemployment and a large amount of people with mental illness due to the closure of traditional manufacturing (steel) and mining (coal)