Correction to: International Journal of Obesity (2010) 34, 420–428; doi:10.1038/ijo.2009.250; published online 22 December 2009

Since the publication of the above paper, the authors have noticed that the employment term ‘carers’, which refers to women who are full-time carers as a marker of unemployment, has been printed as ‘careers’ throughout the article.

The typesetters apologize for the mistake.