Crucial issue is far from childs' play
Childcare is high on the political agenda as a crucial issue for parents in determining how many hours they can work or even whether they’re able to work at all. What doesn’t get so much attention is just how vital childcare is to employers: without a pool of workers who have adequate, reliable childcare, businesses would quite simply not be able to operate.
In spite of substantial evidence to the contrary, childcare remains stuck in public perception as a women’s issue. Rather than being a women’s issue, childcare is an ‘infrastructure’ issue as Nicola Sturgeon referred to it at the Women’s Employment Summit in 2012. Or as Barack Obama said in his State of the Union address: It’s time we stopped treating childcare as a side issue…or as a women’s issue and treat it like the national economic priority it is for all of us.”
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