There is a bold answer to Britain’s childcare crisis: a shorter working week

Alice Martin wrote for Tribune about the possibilities that a shorter working week would offer to parents, children and nursery workers alike.

“Shortening the working week for all employees in a particular workplace or sector, without a reduction in incomes, would enable people of all genders to pursue their working lives whilst also freeing up more time for caring commitments. Though a 30 hour working week isn’t going to undo patriarchy overnight, our current work dogma where ​“choice” over working hours is predetermined by income levels and gender is doing us no favours on that front: women are overrepresented in forms of insecure work like zero hours contracts, and year on year women need to work 67 more days than men to earn the same amount.”

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