Women refused permission to WFH while kids are off school

I had to provide proof of childcare before my employer would give me permission to work from home. If I didn’t have childcare I would have been put on furlough. My work is mentally taxing, it’s really easy to make a major cock up, so I would struggle if my boyfriend wasn’t keeping my son entertained.

Luckily I can do a portion of my work in the evening when my son is in bed.

margoletta why aren't you sorting out the unfair domestic burden with your husband?

No one else can resolve that for you.

Read a post on here where a family have split the day. One does 5.30-12.30 and other 12.30-7.30 their respective workplaces have approved it. Time to recommend it to your husband. Mine are teens so I’m managing but it would have been hideous when they were all primary school age.

I am not surprised by the findings because people know that in our society women still do the lions share of work where child raising is concerned.

I think there are also many other families where both parents are WFH but the woman is doing all the home learning, child wrangling as well as her job whilst the man just works.
I am starting work at 7:30, finishing at 6:30, because in between I am feeding, assisting, directing the children in their learning too (and my two are good, well behaved children that like learning, so I'm not breaking up bickering or cajoling all day as some people must need to do!)
I'm working in the evenings too, and at weekends, to try and get through all I need to do (I'm in a 37.5 hour a week job).

My husband is just working- 9:30-6 mon-fri, and then a bit in the evening- which is his normal working pattern. His work has not been disrupted a bit, whereas mine is suffering because of the interruptions and the lack of longer periods for concentration.

How soon until solicitors reopen?