Women are affected most in shake-out of part-time jobs during Covid crisis

CSO's Labour Force Survey shows female unemployment rose by a larger amount compared with males in the three months to the end of September.

CSO figures show there were 85,600 women unemployed at the end of September, up by 30,000 from the same period in September 2019.

Women are suffering a disproportionate share of the large shake-out of jobs mainly because the number of part-time jobs in the hardest-hit parts of the economy such as food service and accommodation has shrivelled during the Covid-19 pandemic, new figures reveal. 

The CSO's authoritative Labour Force Survey shows that female unemployment rose by a larger amount compared with males in the three months to the end of September, even before the reimposition of a second round of State-wide restrictions last month.