Band 5+: Many women want or need to continue working even after they have children. The charts below show the working patterns of mothers with young children to care for. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart illustrates the percentage of working patterns of mothers with young children in the Great Britain. Noticeably, Mothers with young children from 0-2 years are almostly not woking. While, Mothers with young children 5-9 years are working part-time approximately in half.

According to the chart, it is clear that mothers with children 0-2 and 3-4 years had most not working with 70% and 54% respectively. In addition, working part-time mothers with children 0-2 had approximately double figures than working full-time at 19% and 11%. While, mothers with children 3-4 had stable working full-time at 11% but increased quite big in working part-time at 35%

For children from 5-9 and more than 10 years, almost mothers choose working part-time with 48% and 45% respectively. In addition, the figures mothers working full-time increased sharply to 29% at 10 years old than children 5-9 at 14%. While, the percentage of mothers not working was 38% and 26% respectively.