To what extent does the gendered labor market affect female employment in Britain? The main aim of my research proposal is to investigate women's experiences in the labor market compared to those of men. This will be done by: • Exploring how gender influences the career choices of both men and women • Understanding why more women work part time than men • Exploring the gender pay gap To complete my thesis and achieve the objectives set out above you need to use a number of sources. These sources can take the form of books, academic journals, government publications, and relevant news articles. To find relevant literature I will pull sources from the Lanchester Library and the library's online database; Identify. First I will analyze the secondary research. To provide a framework for my literature review I will need to collect and understand relevant literature that already exists on my chosen topic. With the data I find I will compare it to other research studies and discuss similarities or differences that may be present, identify key themes within the literature, discuss studies that support or dispute a particular finding, and discuss the relevance and implications of research .Secondly, to broaden my understanding, I will do some field work. To do this I will use the quantitative research method of postal questionnaires. I chose to produce a postal questionnaire rather than constructing interviews to save on expenses. Because questionnaires are relatively cheap to produce and distribute, they are advantageous to a researcher who wishes to use a geographically large sample. Regarding my research proposal, to get a clearer picture of women's experiences in the labor market in ...... half of the paper ...... national segregation since research shows that "one third of female corporate managers move into lower-skilled employment after having a child and two-thirds of these move into office work" (UCEA, 2011: 24). Another factor that could influence the gender pay gap is whether women work in the public or private sector. The Fawcett Society (2013) states that the higher levels of pay offered to women by the public sector contribute to the overall pay gap between men and women. They demonstrate this through statistics showing that the average gender pay gap for all public sector jobs amounts to 17.6% compared to the 24.2% gap in the private sector. Olsen and Walby (2004) argue that this difference in pay between the public and private sectors could be associated with a greater likelihood of union membership in the public sector..