…during the summer holidays reported on here, following a survey by the daycare trust.
Obviously the article isn’t aiming to say everything that one might say about childcare, but I found it interesting that there is NO mention of gender issues at all – the implications of the lack of childcare, say, for parents and in particular, given norms about primary care giving roles, mothers. Presumably widespread boredom of children isn’t the only consequence of the lack of childcare. Some parents must be doing a fair bit of juggling, or cutting back on hours, or double shifts in order to work around childcare…
(Again, see Okin for more related to this, and how such commitments, combined with the fact that women often take on the primary care-giving role, contribute to their exclusion from or hindrance in the workforce.)
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