Around the world this morning, millions of women are on their way to work. Globally, we know that most women prefer to be in paid employment, and that most men agree. The empowerment of women in the workplace is to be celebrated, but it is not without its challenges.

“The future of work” is a phrase that now seems to be on everyone’s lips.Studies, websites, seminars and even a discipline within an entirely new field of study — “futurology” — are all devoted to pondering what the world of work may hold in store for us in the coming decades.Man