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February 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
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Becky Barrow
Last updated at 12:04 AM on 9th February 2012
One of the biggest problems facing working mothers, posed by model above, is the cost of childcare in the UK
Mothers are being forced to accept badly paid, low-skilled jobs after having children because there are so few decent part-time jobs in Britain, a report warns today.
The research warns women are paying a ‘shockingly high price for motherhood’ because bosses offer either well-paid full-time jobs – or poor quality part-time work.
The report, from the think-tank, the Resolution Foundation, and the parenting website, Netmums, said British women face ‘one of the highest part-time pay penalties in Europe.’
Around 1,600 mothers, who work part-time, were quizzed by researchers.
Before having their children, more than 90 per cent had worked full-time.
After their children were born, they wanted to continue working, typically part-time, but were shocked and frustrated by the quality of jobs which were available.
One said: ‘I have had to take an evening job in a call centre as there was no opportunity for part-time work or a job share with the design and marketing industry.
‘I have a degree and also reached a managerial level prior to having children.
Many mothers want to return to work part-time but were frustrated by the lack of opportunities available. Picture above posed by model
‘However, due to a lack of opportunities, all that was available was part-time work at a much lower level.’
Women were asked: ‘By working part-time, do you feel you have had to take a lower skilled job than you would have if you worked full-time?’
Nearly 45 per cent said that this was their experience. The report added: ‘Many respondents to our survey complained about being held back by working part-time.’
Many women did not want to work full-time because they wanted to be more involved in the important early years of raising their children, but resented the poor part-time opportunities.
It said: ‘Many said that they did not want to miss out on the important early years in the child’s life.’
Many women did not want to work full-time because they wanted to be more involved in the important early years of raising their children, but resented the poor part-time opportunities.
Sally Russell, co-founder of Netmums, said: ‘It is unbelievable that women are encouraged to climb the career ladder only to be forced back to the lowest rung when they have children.’
The report said many women ‘move down the occupational ladder’ when they switch to part-time work, and the move is irreversible.
As a result, they lose ‘a significant amount of income’, the report reveals. Many are forced into the so-called ‘five Cs’ – clerical, cleaning, caring, cashiering and catering.
One of the biggest problems facing women is the crippling cost of childcare in this country.
On average, parents spend a third of their net household income on childcare in Britain, compared to an average of 13 per cent in other major economies, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Vidhya Alakeson, director of research at the Resolution Foundation, said: ‘It is bad news for the living standards of households, already struggling in the current climate.’
Official figures show there are 5.8million women working part-time in Britain, compared to 7.7million women working full-time.
It comes as a think-tank, the Social Market Foundation, is calling for parents to be allowed to borrow up to £10,000 from the Government to help pay for their childcare.
The money, from the so-called National Childcare Contribution Scheme, would be repaid on a monthly basis through the tax system to help parents overcome the ‘huge financial burden of childcare.’
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My husband makes enough to pay the bills but not enough to cover everything else!!!!! Reality is it doesn’t work!!!! I would love to go back to the 50’s and stay at home but unfortunately the real world gets in the way. Hate to be sexist but men really don’t grasp it sometimes
– kate, Sussex, 09/2/2012 06:36…….why have children if you can’t afford them?
It’s a choice. Why have more than one? As women we carry the child, give birth etc. so it will affect our work lives. It’s very selfish to say ‘I want a child whatever the cost’ because it’s the child that suffers from having no mother at home and workmates suffer from having a colleague that has ‘instant’ leave because of sick children.
One or the other when children are young, work OR motherhood, look where the alternative has got us.
Your choice.
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This may be because many employers and f/t workers have experienced the problems associated with the presence of part-timers who are mothers, whose mind is never more than half on the job and who demand endless concessions based on the claim to have become saintly because of having shown the ability to reproduce.Maybe what women need is to decide whether they want a job or career, and whether they can combine either with having children, or whether they need to make choices based on something other than the notion that they should always get exactly what they want, generally at the expense of others.
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The ‘price’ of motherhood?? They should consider themselves lucky they can have children, not everyone can.
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Part time jobs are usually part time BECAUSE they are low key and relatively unimportant. If that’s the market you choose to engage with then that’s up to you. Really. Is there no end to the extent to which women expect the world to adapt exclusively to their needs? Commerce has its rules. It’s like a living organism. You fit in with it and not the other way round.
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This is nothing new.Like it or not it’s the female of the species that carries a child and gives birth and looks after it for a considerable while. NOT the male.
Therefore, unless you are ‘well off’ you have to sacrifice something if you want a child.
I chose not to have children as I loved my work and it’s a decision I have never regretted. But I have worked with many women that were doing mundane clerical work part-time because they had children and couldn’t devote their energies to something more rewarding workwise.
Either you want to be a mother and bring up your children properly or you want an intersting career. Rarely can you have both. As for ‘needing to work to pay the bills’ then don’t have children. The child will suffer, not you. It’s not rocket science.
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John, Wales, 09/02/2012 00:27
What a pompous idiot- I take it you have no kids.
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Get married – have children – stay at home and look after them – that’s the real job.
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I am a married mum of one and I work part-time. As someone who is regularly told that I deliver a full time job in that time, I do begrudge the status of a part-timer, who still makes the tea etc. I was a manager in the banking sector before I had my child, after being redundant I found that part time jobs on offer were clerical (which is what I do now). So I get part time money for doing a full timer’s job, referred to by others as “just” or “only” part time, look after my child and support my husband in his demanding job. This is just to keep our heads above water and unlike my parents generation it’s not for life’s little luxuries!
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John from Wales- yes we want our children yes we are very prepared to look after them. I would love to be able to afford to stay at home but unfortunately like a lot of people one wage isn’t enough to survive on these days. As I am prepared to look after my own children I need to work round my husband so I can take them to school, pick them up, help them with their homework and be there them. My children, my responsibility!!! However I also need to have money for the £38 a month school lunches £14 school trip, £10 school jumper, shoes ect. My husband makes enough to pay the bills but not enough to cover everything else!!!!! Reality is it doesn’t work!!!! I would love to go back to the 50’s and stay at home but unfortunately the real world gets in the way. Hate to be sexist but men really don’t grasp it sometimes
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As a single mum to a 5 year old I agree. It is impossible finding a job which pays enough to live on, but is only from 9-2 and only during term time. It’s shelf stacking fast food chains. And the wage is so low that one gets more on benefits when you take things like council tax, legal aid and prescriptions into account. This is all new to me at the moment but I have yet to discover how on earth other single mums work, or how benefit families survive as we don’t have nearly enough to live on either way at the moment!
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