Another factor at banks has been the surge in women employees and managers.

A recent survey found that one third of women employees planned to have a child during the next few years.

No member, of course, admitted to compromising women employees in that way.

As a result, she said, women employees, regardless of their position, were expected to perform menial tasks.

Besides being paid less per hour the majority of women employees in both sectors work fewer hours than their male counterparts.

They began the factory in 1984 with five women employees who had no previous weaving training.

But actually, we need a lot more women employees, in terms of opportunity and advantage to them, at the senior management levels.

"We have not had any outright failures," he said of the firm's women employees.

In the 1950s, most women employees were young and single; 62% of the female labor force in 1960 had never been married.

While not including any set amount of money, the settlement would allow women employees to take their claims to an independent arbitrator.