Sameera Ahmed and Angela Dale XXXXXXXXXXhave researched the labour market participation of Pakistani and Bangladeshi women in Britain. They used national survey data along with qualitative interviews....

Sameera Ahmed and Angela Dale (2008) have researched the labour market participation of Pakistani and Bangladeshi women in Britain. They used national survey data along with qualitative interviews. They examined participation rates from 2001–05 for women aged 19–60 years (not including full-time students). Their figures show that levels of economic activity vary by ethnicity:

Black Caribbean women – 78 per cent

White women – 77 per cent

Pakistani women – 31 per cent

Bangladeshi women – 21 per cent

They also confirmed that unemployment rates among the economically active are higher for Pakistani and Bangladeshi women:

Bangladeshi women – 16 per cent

Pakistani women – 15 per cent

White women – 3.4 per cent