Women find it hard to enter particular sectors of employment, and more senior jobs.
They generally get the short end of the stick when it comes to training opportunities. It is similar in the trade union movement, with workplace and leadership issues, even though gender equality has been a trade union issue for many years. Very few are organisers or educators. Women's representation in union leadership is much lower than their proportion of membership. Even in unions where the majority of members are women, we usually find women are proportionately poorly represented in regional and national structures.