older women
Jackie Ashley's piece in today's Guardian is subtitled 'the nation's great untapped resource' and makes a strong case for paying attention to the competences of older women. This generation of 50+ women is the first to have a high level of qualifications, and far fewer of them have no qualifications at all. So we need to think much more about how they can play a full part in paid as well as unpaid work. She makes a powerful argument that this affects us all, for fairness and efficiency reasons. Ashley quotes some significant changes in attitude compared to 30 years ago. In 1984 65% of women agreed that a husband's…
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