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To be annoyed with sexism in DS's nursery

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serensiren · 09/06/2019 17:09

On Mother's Day, mums we're invited to my DS's nursery for a coffee morning between 9-11 am.
For Father's Day in a couple of weeks, the invitation reads: pop by for a donut and coffee with your little one before you head off to work. Time: 7.30 am.

Why is it assumed that dads have work to go to but mums don't? Does anyone else experience this from their children's nurseries? This is my first child and his first year at nursery so it's all new to me and frankly I feel quite insulted! AIBU to feel this way and mention this blatant sexism to them? Or will I just be seen as 'that mum' 🙄🙄

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LolaSmiles · 10/06/2019 07:13

serensiren
Yes, so speak to them this time.

But I don't think if an event is well attended (and I'm guessing has been historically well attended), it can be viewed as the nursery being awful. They're making decisions, we assume, based on what turn out is like. If people have always turned up for the mother's day one then there was no reason to presume it needed changing.

Or as another poster has said, maybe some people already mentioned something at the time so the next event was morning and was fathers day, or maybe they've had poor attendance at fathers day ones so have moved it.

wherethewildthingis that is awful.

Footle · 10/06/2019 11:00

Muffins for Mums maybe?
I'd have been pissed off about this back in the 80s

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