Research by the Equal Opportunities Commission in 2004 found that breaks from work to care for children or relatives accounted for 14 per cent of the pay gap.
According to Equal Opportunities Commission women and men should also use their right on equality in relation to parental leave after child birth or adoption.
In the 1970s, she was one of the first full-time women's training advisers and pioneered the training of staff in the then new Equal Opportunities Commission.