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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the changes coming in are also being pushed by far left and far right groups that don’t want to see women in the workplace. In the past 5 years I’m seeing less and less women in the pipeline at work. Many have switched to working remotely because they can’t find consistent childcare. This kills their career.

I’m a single mother. My ex husband is unreliable. I have to go to work and I don’t get to take breaks. Two of my children are disabled, they have autism. My third child has dyslexia and is too tired for aftercare. I’m paid fairly well but not lots because I’m paying school fees, childcare, medical expenses and housing.

I’d like to know what I’m supposed to do because the family courts don’t enforce child related expenses being equally shared, to keep my well paid job I have to show up even when I have a sick child and I can’t afford an au pair, no one wants the nanny role as not enough hours plus I need household admin done, which they don’t want to do.

This is about women’s rights because this is going to disproportionately affect women. [/quote]

I don’t think it’s about women in the workplace. The effects on women are collateral damage. Ultimately for the far-right they’re concerned about visa overstays and preventing immigrants from coming into the United States. The left is focused on wage concerns (increasing the minimum wage and not having au pairs undercut nannies’ wages). They also have some concern about working conditions for au pairs generally. Neither considers the effect their policies have on working families.  The far left would ideally solve the collateral damage issue through government-funded childcare, but that’s completely politically unrealistic in the near term and they don’t really care that much about the families that bear the cost of effectively cancelling the au pair program. Unfortunately families have no way to organize themselves politically and express their policy preferences in a way that can be seriously considered by policymakers.[/quote]

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