Women: Wages

Baroness Wheatcroft Excerpts
Wednesday 25th June 2014

(9 years, 11 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Wheatcroft Portrait Baroness Wheatcroft (Con)
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My Lords, are not more and more women taking their remuneration into their own hands by setting up their own businesses, which has become increasingly easy to do?

Baroness Northover Portrait Baroness Northover
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Yes. The number of self-employed women has increased to 1.42 million. There are more women-led businesses than ever before and more women in employment than ever before, with wages going up.