Emeritus Prof Christopher May

While childminding is not only a quantity issue (there is always a question of the quality of provision), the UK's failure to develop a workable policy on #childminders is pushing a decline in provision...

When the #Tories talk about getting people back to work, lurking behind is the 'traditional' view of men back to work, women stay at home & look after the kids.

Without childcare whatever you think about #mothers working, a significant choice is being removed!

#feminism unwound?

Jan 6, 2024 at 9:22amWeb
Show threadJody HughesJan 6, 2024
@ChrisMayLA6 (Strong disapproval of this graph with a non-zero baseline.)
Show threadEmeritus Prof Christopher MayJan 6, 2024

@Gaolaitch

Yup, but it still interesting, even if not as informative as one with absolute numbers....

Show threadPetrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂJan 6, 2024
@ChrisMayLA6 How little, really, has been the advance in #fathering in the generation since the 1960s
Show threadEmeritus Prof Christopher MayJan 6, 2024

@sinabhfuil

more in words than in deeds....

Show threadPetrichor ᚄᚔᚅᚐᚁᚆᚃᚒᚔᚂJan 6, 2024
@ChrisMayLA6 Well… there's been a lot of change. A man pushing a child in a stroller still raised eyebrows in the 1960s; it was normal for men to refer to "helping the wife" with the children by, say, reading a bedtime story - children were 100% a woman's responsibility then
Show threadJulie growsJan 6, 2024
@ChrisMayLA6 Reflects the more serious concern that care of people has no intrinsic value, never mind the value added by offering employment choices.
Show threadGoblincore KatieJan 7, 2024
@ChrisMayLA6 My friend is visiting now from the UK, and she was telling me how everything has gotten more expensive and harder since Brexit.