Most women reduce their commitment to careers when they marry according to a report from the Centre for Policy Studies based on research carried out at the London School of Economics. The report says that while many women see their priority as spending time with their children, Government policies are designed to drive them into full-time work.The report, ‘Choosing to be Different – women, work and the family’, by Jill Kirby, challenges what she calls the prevailing fallacy that men and women are interchangeable in their aspirations for work and family life. Using research by Dr Catherine Hakim, she says women have no difficulty in regarding themselves as equal to men, but they have different life-goals.
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