The adoption of more flexible working practices in many countries should also help to improve productivity.
This could include flexible working hours, breaks and facilities for new mothers, the charity suggests.
Half of employers did not offer any form of flexible working, the report showed.
There are also signs that employers are more open to family friendly policies, such as flexible working.
Yet there is a distinction between part-time and temporary jobs, the two common forms of flexible working.
Their new selling points are sandwiches with the boss, opportunities for advancement, flexible working hours and more holiday time.
Female officers cited reasons including lack of flexible working and issues surrounding childcare.
She said it was making "significant" progress, with flexible working by staff and many drivers working on their days off.
The company had tried to avoid redundancies with flexible working and lay-off periods but long-term forecasts reveal the downturn would be prolonged.
But she also wants employers and the government to help women along via flexible working hours, paid parental leave and so forth.
Flexible working hours allow employees to leave the office at 2:30 p.m.
When emergency repairs were carried out to the Kessock Bridge in 2011, flexible working hours were encouraged to avoid peak travel times.
Start-ups in growth industries such as biotechnology have adopted flexible working practices.
Its 2011 employment trends survey found 96% of respondents offered at least one form of flexible working, while 70% offered three or more.
In return, the employee would give up certain rights, including unfair dismissal, redundancy, training rights and also the right to ask for flexible working.
Small businesses more than most find it hard to function with proliferating requirements to do with health and safety, flexible working and the like.
She added that the government's plans to help small companies introduce flexible working conditions and these will make it easier for women to work part time.
But job cuts and flexible working will not be enough to safeguard the future of Longbridge, which employs 14, 000 and makes a selection of ageing models.
Placing the environment, social responsibility and flexible working hours at the heart of the political agenda was "not because we are somehow anti-business", Mr Osborne insisted.
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She said flexible working would be particularly relevant to female colleagues wanting to start a family, but said male colleagues were also interested in changing their hours.
Proposals to give parents the right to request flexible working, such as fewer hours and job sharing, throughout their working lives also appear to have been dropped.
He said new forms of flexible working could help employees meet these conflicting demands and still be financially viable and even beneficial for businesses by increasing workers' productivity.
An increase in GP specialist registrar places, additional training opportunities in rural and deprived practice areas, and more flexible working for those with families were also suggested measures.
He told the Times that the way that unions had worked with management to back pay cuts and flexible working as an alternative to job losses was a "miracle".
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Flexible working arrangements and teleworking are useful in creating a pipeline of qualified women, and men, at middle-management level, but the impact is limited when it comes to boards.
The report, called Medical Academic Career Intentions, also calls for more flexible working patterns to encourage more doctors to stay in academic medicine and encourage others to take up jobs.
The battle to win more flexible working practices throughout firms has reached a "stalemate", with high demand among employees for reform, but few organisations offering what staff want, the magazine said.
Desires for flexible working, promotions, the primacy of work over other parts of life, these do seem to be different for women with children and those without and with men in general.
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One risk between now and then is that the workers will feel not rewarded by the shorter working week but exploited, forced to accept the flexible working practices they have traditionally objected to.
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