Around 10% of #mothers have quit their job due to problems with balancing #childcare & #work, while around 40% have foregone #promotion or other career development opportunities for the same reason... so, we can see how structural #sexism (reinforced by Govt. policies) is affecting #women in the workplace.
When we talk about #genderdiversity in the workplace (highlighted by Helen MacNamara at the #CovidInquiry), here is one key mechanism that causes the problem!
Great news: Hormel is building a $5M child-care facility in Austin, MN, VGM Grp: converting 8,000 sq ft of office space into a day care in Waterloo, IA & Walmart: early learning center in Bentonville, AR to serve >500 children. On-site child care: become the latest & often, priciest -new way for bus' to attract & keep employees esp. in understaffed INDUs. It makes bus sense, too -employers lose ~$23B/yr bc of child care resulting in a $122B hit to the economy. #Childcarehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/10/29/childcare-workplace-onsite-employment/
This book tells you everything you might need to know in 1975, from legal matters to #squatting, from sourcing / using #drugs to #health care, #travel to part-time work, how to wire a house & where to find good free #yoga classes. There’s guides to #hitching & finding #communes & #crashpads , places to print cheaply & #DIY tips, free #education & help with #childcare & it’s all written in such optimistic tones; the freaks & hippies of 1975 really thought they were winning. Heartbreaking, really
Hey #Sociology and #religious scholars people, can anyone tell me why it is that religious groups are often so good at organizing themselves to share #childcare responsibilities but secular groups seem super bad at it?
No one said that having kids would be cheap. But should preschool cost a third of your income?
The screams you’re hearing are coming from UK parents, who are beginning to organise around the outrageously high costs of taking care of young children.
As Bloomberg reporter Olivia Konotey-Ahulu explores in her article today, England is one of the most expensive places in the world to take care of young children, relative to income.