Women going from the Board to the checkout.

Many women are now going back to work in a lower capacity to their pre-baby status. Take Diane, a well-paid events manager for a top London firm with a degree in History who now has a paper round and is looking for jobs that work around the kids.

In September 2005, the Equal Opportunities Commission announced the results of a nationwide research project to investigate Britain's so-called female brain drain. Even the EOC was amazed. Their stats shoed that at least 4.4 million women are working below their potential - more than a third of the total female workforce.