One in five British housewives would be willing to work if employers gave them more flexibility, according to a study of the Commission for equal opportunities, one of the main structures for the monitoring of discriminations. (Ref 061128)
This means 400 000 people could potentially enter the labor market, out of the 2 million inactive women in United Kingdom. Economists think that this change is essential in order to deactivate the time bomb of the ageing population and support in the long term the growth rate of our aging economies. The benefit could be 20 billion Pounds a year in Great Britain. Jenny Watson, chairwoman of the Commission, used these results to refute the sales talk according to which the salary gap between man
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