It is mad to put women in the front line and men in the nursery
by Kathy Gyngell, TCW:
Have I missed something: the men’s protest march against the exclusion of their sex from careers in childcare – the one that ended up in Trafalgar Square?
Surely, there must have been a mass male demo against the iniquity of the gender gap in nursery care and how wickedly blokes are discriminated against?
No. There wasn’t one. Really? Are you sure? You mean men don’t care about having careers in childcare?
So what was all that fuss and furore about after Mrs (where angels fear to tread is my second name) Leadsom was found to have said “most of us don’t employ men as nannies”, if men didn’t care?
Because she was bang on right. Most of us don’t employ men as nannies. Only two per cent of nursery and childcare workers are male as far as I can find out.
She might have posed the question why, but I expect she thought it was self evident.
Maybe because women don’t want male nannies for their babies? Or because only a minority of men would ever chose childcare for their preferred career path?
Unfortunately, she said something a tad more controversial – that the odds are stacked against you if you employ a man for: “we know paedophiles are attracted to working with children”.
“This is an extraordinarily offensive statement”, roared Jon Ashworth, the Labour Shadow Minister for something or other. Peter Tatchell where on earth were you when you were needed to stick up for Mrs L’s right to offend and insult?
Crass maybe and wildly politically incorrect yes, but was what she said true or false? Are there more male paedophiles than female ones? And are paedophiles attracted to working with children?
Yes and yes are the answers.
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