It’s promoting breastfeeding because it’s “free” when it can be a full-time job. It’s mothers being offered lower salaries than men or women without children. It’s mothers being less likely to be hired than men or women without children. It’s fathers taking on extra jobs in the evenings, to make up for the loss of a second income. It’s the privatiz

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Many mothers look for part-time and flexible work so that they can manage all of this extra unpaid work, but only 10 per cent of jobs are advertised as part-time, with just 1 in 4 jobs specifying any type of flexible working,9 so many women are forced to work in jobs that are well below their skill level. On top of this, part-time work is paid at a

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