Two-thirds of women with childcare responsibilities believe they have missed out on career progression as a direct result, business leaders have warned, amid growing pressure on the government to boost support for parents.
Gosh, that is a surprise. If you have this thing here then that thing over there is not available, or is more difficult. Choices matter? Opportunity costs, and there are always opportunity costs?
How dreadful the universe is, eh?
Nicola Horlick. The media has a lot to answer for (she thought it ridiculous).
So where do they get the servants from that they’ll need to do all this child care??
Oh. They’re coming over the Channel on all those boats, are they.
Bogan, remember during the Brexit
debacledebate:“Who is going to make my sandwich in Pret?”
Take that woman with 4 young kids who can’t work because a child minder would take all her income. The argument goes that if free childcare was provided she could go to work and be productive. Now just for fun lets assume she gets a job …. as a child minder looking after 4 young kids.
“Ministers must change the law so that every single job is advertised with the possible flexible options stated, and all workers must have the legal right to work flexibly from their first day in a job
Bet he reads Tax Research UK with his breakfast cereal…
Meanwhile, the Trades Union Congress has calculated that almost 1.5 million women are kept out of the labour market because of their caring responsibilities, compared with 230,000 men, making them seven times as likely to stand outside the workforce
And the resultant collapse in birth rates if the policy were enacted could very well accelerate societal collapse, particularly in conjunction with the COVID vaccines and the activities of the WEF as will as militant trans murdering people.
I think it’s fair to say we’re in the brown stuff….
Am I the only one who doesn’t understand why people making babies, with a 9 month leadtime, plus parental leave, are completely incapable of budgeting for childcare – or weighing up the pros and cons of looking after their own kids rather than entrusting them to someone they don’t know?
Is the current child-bearing age cohort completely incapable of such rationality ir are their hormones fogging their critical faculties
The argument goes that if free childcare was provided she could go to work and be productive. Now just for fun lets assume she gets a job …. as a child minder looking after 4 young kids.
Her and a number of friends (where n>1) could run small child minding businesses, looking after each others kids. A looks after B’s, B looks after A’s.
Then not only would all the kiddy winks be taken care of, there would be a boost to GDP and productivity! No more recession!
Oddly enough for someone who’s always been so determinedly child free, I do have some experience in this field. I know a lot of women with the problem. They seem to cope with it by networking. There’s always girls who’d like to pick up a bit of tax free extra, minding somebody else’s kids. Even suits them. If you have one or two of your own, another one about adds little extra work & contributes to keeping your one(s) occupied. This is nothing new. It’s the history of the human race.
Problem the women under discussion have is they only network with people like themselves. And of course that particularly applies to the one’s that grizzle about it the most.
No one ever told them…
“You know those 60-year-old men who work so much they become distant from their wives, never see their kids and have sons who barely talk to them anymore? That’s who you’re trying to become.”
@starfish
I’ve known people who’ve gotten married without even knowing whether they want kids, let alone have enough money for them.
Anyway, I heard Adam Carolla (comedian) talk once about people who say they can’t afford food to feed their kids. He said, “Boil an egg. That’s breakfast. Can you afford an egg?”
The childminding example is starting to sound like a modern version of taking in washing