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Daycare up to school age isn’t enough support. You think parenting just gets easy at that point? Protip: school gets out WAY before work.
When my kids are with me, due to them being at different schools in different parts of the city with different start times, I get in to work between 9:30 and 10. I have to leave by 4:30 to pick them both up before their respective afterschool programs close.
Support on one side or the other would make a HUGE difference in my productivity. Bus to an on-campus afterschool would be one way, but how about credits for a carpool service in the morning? Get creative. Ask your employees.
If I had a partner who could do all the pickups and dropoffs because they had a flexible schedule, imagine how much more energy I could put into my work! This is what the men who get ahead have.
You want women - who statistically do more of this work, and statistically are more often single parents - to succeed at your company? Give them the fucking support they need. It’s really that simple.
I am getting sick of talking about this. Been doing it for years without discernible improvement. If you want midlevel & senior technical women to succeed at your company, childcare support (up to AND beyond school age) is required.https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/971861219823968256?s=21 …
This is another seldom-examined aspect of this problem: the women who don’t work because they get paid less than their husbands (thx pay gap), but WOULD work if there was decent childcare support.https://twitter.com/rose_w/status/1102812197569216512?s=21 …
Pre-emptively: yes, OF COURSE the government should do it, but just like healthcare, they won’t really, so in the meantime, tech companies have an opportunity here to differentiate themselves from the pack when competing for midlevel and senior technical women.
Maybe they can take a little of that $12k/year/employee food budget and put it towards something that matters. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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