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Tomorrow's workers were still in primary school when the social partners began to address flexible working in the 1990s, but little progress has been made, writes Gerald Flynn

OVER THE past two weeks I found myself, unusually, spending 18 hours in various university examination halls. The very noticeable feature was that two out of every three of these talented students, poring over examination scripts, were young women.