Women 'a growing factor in workforce'

WOMEN are fast becoming a more dominant feature of the workforce, a leading economist declared yesterday.

Professor Lowell Catlett of New Mexico State University told a Teagasc-run international food conference in Dublin that women form the fastest growing group in starting businesses.

The number of female- owned businesses in the EU and US is growing at a staggering 4% annually for the past decade. And there are now more single-headed households in the USA and Europe than married households with children