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Women in work need more help.

Australasian Business Intelligence, March, 2006

Byline: Adele Horin

Mar 26, 2006 (The Sydney Morning Herald - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian workforce is expected to contain an equal number of men and women in their 50s by 2041. According to a Department

of the Treasury report released in 2002, the number of Australian women aged 55 to 59 who are in the workforce will increase from 48 to 72 by 2041. University of New South Wales emeritus sociology professor, Sol Encel, commented that it will be women in the 50-plus age group that will come under pressure to look after their parents, a generation that will live longer than any before it. The number of Australians over the age of 100 is expected to rise from 3,000 to 10,000...

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