Women represented 37 per cent of all Canadians who worked independently to operate a business, professional activities or were unpaid family workers.

If you're one of them, be prepared.

More than 1.7 million paid employees — those not self-employed — worked from home in 2008 at least once a week, up almost 23 per cent from the 1.4 million in 2000, according to the latest Statistics Canada report on the subject in 2010.