Older women are more likely to be in employment than at any time in the past 30 years, according to figures from the Department for Work and Pensions.
Statistics showed the proportion of women aged between 50 and 64 in jobs reached a record high in 2015 of 64.2 per cent.
This compares to just 41.9 per cent of women in this age group who worked in 1985.
Pensions minister Baroness (Ros) Altmann said: “In the past, society was too quick to write people off once they reached a certain age, but it is clear that things are changing – and about time too.”