Online Resources for Working Women who Juggle Family, Career and
Home
Working mothers work longer hours Approximately 47% of the UK
workforce is now made up of women, with 12 million employed,
according to the Labour Force Survey from the Office of National
Statistics. And the employment figure is rising by approximately
20,000 every two months. 41% of these women are working mothers
with dependant children (4.9 million), and it is these women
that increasingly have to juggle work and home, career and
family.
According to a recent government-backed research programme into
the future of work, working mums work longer hours than they did
ten years ago; on average an additional 2.5 hours a week are
spent working compared to the early 1990s. These findings have
caused Shirley Conran, author of Superwoman, to advise women to
go on a baby strike and stop having children for ten years
because there