The TUC reports on women’s experiences of job insecurity.

While the last few years have seen higher than expected levels of employment, there has also been a growth in temporary and insecure work.

Hundreds of thousands of women are employed on contracts in sectors like social care, retail, catering, cleaning and hospitality that offer little in the way of pay, guaranteed hours or job security.

And it is not just women in low paid sectors who are finding it difficult to get permanent contracts with regular hours – job insecurity is increasingly a feature of many skilled professions, such as university lecturers.