Start saving for your baby daughter's career choices

The top five career choices for girls aged five to 11 - vet, hairdresser, teacher, artist or singer may well cost up to £22,000 in training and apprenticeship allowances more than boy's career aspirations - professional footballer, police officer, fire fighter, car mechanic or F1 driver.

Which could mean that 'Daddy's little princess' may well need about £1,500 per year saved from birth to aged 18 just to start her on her chosen route.

Gary Lacey, group product manager at Norwich and Peterborough Building Society, commented: "These findings show how stereotyped children's career aspirations are at a young age.

"However, it is interesting that girls are torn between the decision to become a vet or a hairdresser - two jobs requiring very different skills. It is also interesting to see that both teaching and policing are devoid of stereotyping with girls and boys voting them as favoured career choices."

April 07^th 2008

• Buddy, can you spare a credit card?
• Price information about home information packs
• Older people facing more debt than they did ten years ago
• Brits worry about financial future
• Love hurts - right in the wallet
• Brits planning to curtail spending
• Make this an Easter nest-egg hunt
• Obituary for New Year's resolution
• Consumers clear their credit card balances
• Financial control freaks?
• No warm and fuzzy feelings about heating your home
• Poorly finances
• Wallets full to bursting
• Employees seek pension plans
• Not enough left to save
• HMRC aims to raise awareness of tax issues
• Wasting your time as well as money