I honestly don't know if i'm imagining this or not.
It has been seeming to me more and more lately that there's a very different attitude to men and women who are self employed, particularly thif they are parents.
I seem to keep reading about women who are self-employed so they can do the school run and be flexible around childhood events and illnesses etc.
While simultaneously reading about men who are self-employed who can't possibly take any of the childcare burden either routinely or in emergencies because 'they don't get paid of they don't work' and 'they're self employed so they have to work long hours'.
Has anybody else noticed this?
Is it the nature of the type of SE work that men do vs women (e.g. there'll be more tradesmen than tradeswomen, more female copywriters than male)?
Or is it because some men use self-employment to avoid family duties?
Or because self employment appeals to male workaholics?
If SE is so wonderfully family friendly and flexible for women then why not for men?
Or, as i asked originally am I imaging this all?
[I have to declare that I am in the category of women who are S-E and therefore do more of the child drops/pickups through choice. Though on the flipside it balances as I do travel for work at times whereas my employed dh never travels overnight for work].
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Am I imagining this?
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museumum · 14/07/2015 16:21
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