Those production worker have been on the job for an average of 14.7 years. 25.8 percent had long wanted to have production jobs, lower than the 38.7 percent for male do manual jobs. But 42.6 percent of them 34 years old or younger said they love to work on the production floors, indicating that many young women are not forced choose to do manual jobs. In particular, those who strongly wish to earn marketable skills and qualifications willingly choose production jobs. An increasing number of women, it seems, avoid jobs at big businesses where sex discrimination is rampant and choose to work in production jobs where their skills are more fairly evaluated.
Women have more domestic and childcare duties than men.
They give up the idea of searching better jobs far away from home. Sixty-six percent of the skilled women workers surveyed once thought of quitting. They thought of leaving labour market several times in the long process of their career but got over it. I asked the respondents about when and why they were tempted to quit work. The age at which they thought of stopping working was averaged for each reason.