| P | T | N | INM | Cl | Sa | Sk | Ch | SSF | SSD | SSO | U | Tot | N | |
| P | [91] | - | - | - | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 100 | 71 |
| T | - | [85] | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 100 | 115 |
| N | - | 3 | [61] | 1 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 100 | 160 |
| INM | - | 3 | 3 | [39] | 19 | 19 | - | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 100 | 62 |
| Cl | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | [49] | 14 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 100 | 964 |
| Sa | - | - | 4 | 2 | 8 | [37] | 3 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 6 | 10 | 100 | 376 |
| Sk | - | - | 4 | 3 | 6 | 10 | [43] | 3 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 11 | 100 | 240 |
| Ch | - | - | - | - | - | 19 | 6 | [13] | 25 | 19 | 6 | 13 | 100 | 16 |
| SSF | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 10 | 3 | 2 | [52] | 12 | 4 | 14 | 100 | 754 |
| SSD | - | - | 2 | - | 3 | 8 | 6 | - | 17 | [43] | 5 | 16 | 100 | 126 |
| SSO | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 14 | [39] | 19 | 100 | 142 |
| U | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | 12 | 24 | 7 | [50] | 100 | 42 |
| Tot | 3068 | |||||||||||||
| p-t | 82 | 56 | 71 | 54 | 63 | 72 | 60 | 86 | 53 | 83 | 64 | 94 |
Mobility of women who were employed both before and after childbirth, in the 1980 British Survey of Women and Employment. Cell entry is the percent with first job after childbirth in the column category, among those whose last job before childbirth had been in the row category. The last column shows the number of cases, and the last row shows the percent part-time of each first return occupation.
Occupational Categories: P = Professional, T = Teachers, N = Nursing, medical and social, INM = Other intermediate non-manual, Cl = Clerical, Sa = Sales, Sk = Skilled, Ch = Childcare, SSF = Semi-skilled factory, SSD = Semi-skilled domestic, SSO = Semi-skilled other, U = Unskilled.
Source: Table 10.6 from: Shirley Dex 1990. "Occupational Mobility Over Women's Lifetime." Chapter 10, pp. 121-138, in Geoff Payne and Pamela Abbott, eds. The Social Mobility of Women: Beyond Male Mobility Models. London: Falmer Press.