Inequalities in the Making

Abstract

One in four young people aged 16 in Britain in 1986 was on the government’s Youth Training Scheme. Just under half of them were young women, and it is with their position and achievements on YTS that this book is mainly concerned. However, it is logically impossible to consider what is happening to young women without taking notice also of the experience of young men, since the lives of both sexes intertwine. What men do has a considerable bearing on what women do. What follows then is an account of the young, as they leave school at the minimum legal age, and experience the transition from school to adult life, to work, non-work and training. But it is specifically about gender relations between young people in that context.