Quote Originally Posted by Dquincy View Post

I do wonder what the tax implication would be if women stopped working and went back to the domestic role, and how this would affect government income.
It's hard to see this in the graphs (because the UK's GDP grew at a steep rate throughout the whole of the 20th century), but the impact on GDP and tax of a 50% increase in Women working between the 70s and 90s (ish) must have been massive. Well, unless Men were working less as a result, but anecdotally that doesn't seem to be the case.