Refusing furlough to working mothers shows gender equality is going backwards
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. TUC general secretary Frances O’Grady, who has criticised the government’s lack of support for working parents, notes that “tens of thousands of mums have told us they are despairing”. Recommended Parental conflict is harming children during the pandemic “My husband and I are both working, so we’re home-schooling our two kids 50/50, but domestic duties and the mental load all falls to me: planning stuff to do with them, making plans with our bubble, thinking of ways to keep us all sane,” one friend said. “When dads are on a Zoom call and their kids wander in, people think it’s ‘cute’ and it actually positively impacts him at work,” one woman said. “There are massive double-standards for women.” We can relate – we all saw the way Sky News foreign affairs editor Deborah Haynes was treated after being interrupted by her son’s urgent call for biscuits.
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