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Women’s employment rates drop from around 90% before having children to 75% afterwards. Of course, it is down to every family how they choose to balance work with childcare, but the evidence is that our current system is constraining those choices. In countries that have six or more weeks of properly paid paternity leave, women’s labour market participation is four percentage points higher. Not only will that make a significant contribution to economic growth but the increased tax revenue has the potential to offset up to four-fifths of the cost of the government rebate to business.