UK women priced out of work by lack of affordable childcare, PwC finds

Net childcare costs represents almost a third of the income of a family on the average UK wage. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

Women in Britain are being priced out of work and suffering from a growing gender pay gap as the result of a lack of affordable child care, a new report has found.

With the chancellor thought to be looking at ways of boosting employment in next week’s package, a survey by the consultancy group PwC found the UK slipping down the international league table for women in work.