Fewer women now stay at home to look after family
by James Tapsfield, Mailonline:
Fewer women are staying at home to look after family – after numbers fell by a quarter over the past two decades.
One in 11 is now classified as a stay-at-home mother, according to official figures released today.
In the quarter to July, some 1.86million women were recorded as ‘economically inactive’ because they were ‘looking after family or home’.
By contrast the figure in 1997 was over 2.4million.
The details, released by the Office for National Statistics today, underline the scale of the social and economic changes taking place.
Factors such as sharp rises in housing costs as well as more career opportunities for women have resulted in people tending to stay in the jobs market.
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