A new report on second generation British Muslim women shows that although most want to work only 49% of them have a job - and the rest face severe barriers.

The report was launched at London's Living Room, City Hall,  and uses previously unpublished data of the employment levels of second generation British Muslim women from the 2001 Census and 2005 Annual Population Survey (APS), and highlights employment disadvantage in the UK's nine Regional Development Agency (RDA) areas from a survey of second generation British Muslim women conducted for the report.

The report was written by Zamila Bunglawala, a Fellow of the Young Foundation. She is author of the Open Society Institute report Aspirations and Reality: British Muslims and the Labour Market (2004) and co-author of the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit reports on ‘Ethnic Minorities and the Labour Market' (February 2002, March 2003).

Download a full pdf version of the report.