The Young Women’s Trust published a report, ‘Young, Female and Forgotten?‘, in late 2016.
The report says: “For over a decade young women have been more likely than young men to be not in education, employment or training (NEET) and to be NEET and economically inactive (EI). At the time of writing, the most recent figures showed that 843,000 young people in the UK were NEET. Of these the majority – 434,000 – were women.”