The BBC portrays childcare as solely a woman's responsibility

[OhamIreally]

Just watched a report on BBC news on primary schools being closed. Various people in various parts of the country were interviewed as to the impact to them and their opinion.
About six people were interviewed. I say people, but apart from one woman who had a man seated next to her who remained silent, every single person was a woman.

How on earth are we going to make people understand that fathers also have a responsibility to provide childcare when our national broadcaster does shit like this?
How can we show the nation's boys that they will have to step up when the time comes? That's not the message anyone is seeing here.

I saw one man interviewed yesterday, I think, who just commented that "my wife is an essential worker, so we have no option but to send them to school". Now, I'm sure it could have been a longer answer, which originally included the reason why he, also, couldn't be with the kids, and it just got cut to that soundbite, but it sounded a bit odd as such.

Funny that when it comes to childcare the BBC know exactly what a woman/mother is!!

Yanbu.

I'm always torn on things like this, on the one hand we do need to show men taking responsibility for childcare to normalise it, but realistically at the moment it is mostly women doing it.

They likely spoke to more people than they broadcast. It's possible they spoke to men who said their female partner took care of childcare. Perhaps it was women giving relevant responses.