The Employment and Unemployment Situation Memorandum by the Minister of Labour and National Service

2 beginning to outweigh the retirement from industrial employment of women (mainly married women) and older people-and also that, despite some rise in unemployment and a substantial increase, consequent upon the quickening pace of demobilisation, in the number of men and women from the Forces who have not yet taken up employment, the number of persons actually in industrial employ. ment is also beginning to show an increase. These tendencies may be expected to continue as demobilisation gathers way unless women, especially married women, who have, up to the present, not retired from industry to the extent expected, leave industry in large numbers, for example.