PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Career Development: Females (24 January 2020)

We are committed to ensuring that everyone – irrespective of their gender – is able to enter work, progress in work and realise financial security. We are proud that the female employment rate is at a record high. And we are looking to build on this by making Universal Credit better for lone parents (90% of whom are women), and exploring how we can support those in low-paid employment to increase their earnings through a programme of research and testing, looking into barriers to progression (for women in particular), and what works to tackle them.