Failure to employ skills of home-bound educated women

Mothers who take a break in their career to raise children, lose out on pay and promotion; one reason why nearly two-thirds of the UK's best educated women are employed in administrative and clerical jobs.

1. Wasted woman power
2. Unexplored women's skills
3. Underutilization of locally available skills
4. Social isolation of women at home
5. Educated unemployed

1. Tradition-bound childcare
2. Overworked women
3. Deskilling of labour

1. Obsolete vocational skills

1. Working from home
2. Improving skill base of women

1. Uneducated
2. Tradition-bound
3. Home
4. Failure
5. Deskilling