Why You Should Think Again About Workless Young Women

I met three young women at the start of this year to talk about their everyday lives and their experience of education, work and claiming benefits. They were from Manchester and a local youth organisation had put us in touch. What all the women had in common was that they were not working, studying or training (NEET) and they were unable to seek work or start a job imminently. They would be defined by researchers and policymakers as ‘economically inactive’ (EI).The stories that the w