article_snippet: It does not include unemployed women, who are classed as looking for work.
article_snippet: Last year Chancellor George Osborne published plans to encourage up to half a million more women into work by the start of 2016.
article_snippet: Chancellor George Osborne said Chancellor George Osborne wanted to ‘support women who want to work’ by increasing access to child care.
article_snippet: The march of women into the labour market follows the increasing importance of education and jobs to girls, and the pressure on women to remain in work to pay ever-higher mortgages and keep up with the cost of living.
article_snippet: Helping trend: Last year Chancellor George Osborne published plans to encourage up to half a million more women into work by the start of 2016 .
article_snippet: More than two out of three women are now in employment – 68.5 per cent in the last three months of Last year, according to the ONS.
article_snippet: At the beginning of the 1980s the level of working among women was barely over half.
article_snippet: The percentages mean there are now more than 14million women in work, but only two million are full-time mothers or homemakers.