Wifework, by Susan Maushart (Bloomsbury, £10.99)

IN the 90s Girl Power picked up where feminism left off and created a whole new generation of empowered young females.

But new book Wifework, by Susan Maushart, argues that the balance between men and women is still far from equal.

Statistics tell us that three-quarters of divorces are initiated by women and Maushart tells us that the reason for this figure is down to the persistent lack of equality within modern marriages.

Women, she says, are being dragged down by what she calls wifework. Modern couples might both work full-time and share the mortgage but when it comes to getting up to tend to their crying child, a study showed only 11 per cent of couples shared it equally.

So why is this imbalance still occurring in the supposedly ultra-modern 21st century? Maushart delves deep into this phenomenon and looks at how marriage can be made more fun and less exhausting for the modern woman.

Wifework is an enlightening book that encourages readers to reassess marriage and what it should entail in today's society. Provocative and inspirational.