The real cost of apprenticeships
This report looks at apprenticeships and finds some room for optimism, but also significant remaining challenges that hold back too many apprentices, especially young women.
Research
Explore our library of research which highlights the barriers that young women face.
To contact our research team email researchcentre@youngwomenstrust.org
It's (still) a rich man's world
The 2018 Young Women's Trust survey finds that the situation facing many young people is deeply troubling.
Paid less worth less? Achieving equal pay for under-25s
We believe everyone should be given the same pay for the same jobs, regardless of age. Age should not determine worth and paying a fair wage benefits businesses as well as employees.
Equality at work? Positive action in gender segregated apprenticeships
Equality at work? explores the attitudes towards and the use of positive action aimed at addressing gender inequality in apprenticeships offered in sectors in which women are underrepresented in England.
Young women and apprenticeships: still not working?
This report highlights the extent to which the system continues to let down young women and calls for urgent change to put equality and opportunity at the heart of the apprenticeship programme.
Worrying times
This 2017 survey shows that while around half of young people are getting by financially, the other half, an estimated 5 million 18 to 30 year olds, are struggling to make ends meet – including 1 million young people who are facing dire financial problems.
What matters to young mums
Between October 2016 and February 2017 we conducted research with mothers aged under 25 to find out what was important to them, and what they thought about work, children and employment support.
No country for young women
Our 2016 Annual report reveals a generation of young people despairing and anxious, many of whose lives are on hold because of serious financial, work and housing problems - with young women hit hardest.
Making apprenticeships work for young women
This 2016 report looks at how young women continue to miss out on the many benefits apprenticeships have to offer.
The clock turns back for young women
The Clock turns back for young women report, published in 2015, shines a light on the realities of young women's lives in the 21st century.
Creating a working future for young women
Hundreds of thousands of young women are not earning or learning, but they want to be and they could be. This 2015 report looks at young women's worklessness and makes the case for urgent action.
The crisis of young women's worklessness
This report from 2014 looks at the impact on women of being not in education, employment or training (NEET).