The Women’s Business Council was set up last year to advise the Government on how to boost female employment.
The WBC's report, 'Maximising women's contribution to future economic growth', says that there are 2.4m women who are not working but want to work, and a further 1.3m women who want to increase their hours, and says that if they were working this would boost the economy by 0.5 per cent a year or ten per cent by 2030.
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