Sorry, I realise that may have been judgemental of me. I apologise to him.
Professor Pat is a gender equality expert at UL.
Seems reasonable.
He seems a bit sexist for that role. Telling women what they should and shouldn’t care about
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Life partner? I thought you were married.
He’s just trying to be trendy
Is it offensive now to refer to your wife as your wife? Tradwife extremists are now in the same bracket as Isis Wives.
Okay guys, I think the statistics overwhelmingly show that the childcare burden in relationships falls primarily on women, and lack of childcare access and/or “blended learning” would likely have a detrimental effect on women’s careers more so than men (statistically).
Of course there are exceptions to the rule (@caulifloweredneanderthal with his daughter, @Watchyourtoes with codegreen etc) but the fear is that where both parents/guardians work, there’s a higher probability that more women will quit/go part time in absence of a proper childcare system.
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Why is there a fear associated with this? There is absolutely nothing wrong with a couple deciding that the best for their family is that the man works and the woman stays home with the child(ren). The same applies to the opposite scenario.
Oh dear. Well that’s a pity. I’m alright Jack.
My wife earns an awful lot more than me and we have no family living locally, this could be huge here, we’re lucky to have a few more months where i can stay at home but I’ll be campaigning for a full return in August/September, there’s no other way.
I’m sorry to hear that. You didn’t strike me as a man that was on the bread-line and the gun was against your head to work.
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In fairness you only have a part time job.
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If it came down to it I’d have to resign my position which would be a massive blow but i wasn’t speaking about my own situation as such, if we are to begin a school year where children are in school part time and there’s no solution in sight it’s going to be unworkable for a massive amount of families, we won’t starve but plenty will be put to the pin of their collar, I think that’s what McHugh was addressing last week and the INTO man the other night on Primetime seemed amenable to that,
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Fear for those couples that want to work outside the family home environment. I would have thought it’s obviously not an issue where one of them wants to mind the children.
You’re a full-time teacher in his 40s, so I assume your pay is fairly good. Your wife earns an awful lot more than you, so it’s fair to say she’s on very good money. I don’t understand how you resigning for a few years would be a massive blow.
I was picking up on the language being used here. “Fear”, “no other way”, “massive blow”. There are also positives for families where the parents of the children take responsibility for raising the children, rather than sub-contracting it out to childcare providers.
There is no way kids won’t be back 5 days a week
Sorry mate, I’ve said this before but I’ve only been teaching since 2014, I earned more money selling tiles and bathrooms over 20 years ago,
The blow i spoke of would be personal rather than financial, i don’t want to give up my job,
but i’m not prepared to have somebody else look after the kids either, if my language was melodramatic and you want to isolate particular words then i apologise, of course life will go on, I’d prefer if it didn’t have to be that way, i don’t think it needs to be.
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It was a bit