Radio 4: Parental leave/pay on woman's hour today (Tuesday)

[mrsjavierbardem]

Did anyone hear this?
Loving the solicitor with 5 children who has never wanted to spend more than two hours a day with her kids.
I thought it was so tactful when she talked about historically women in our species having looked to "slaves" to look after their children and servants to do the domestic drudgery.

I listened to it, at first I was thrilled as I'm on maternity leave for the second time. I do feel that during my 2 pregnancies and maternity leave (9 months for each) I have had to park my career, and that's totally ok with me. However, I don't think the woman who spoke represented a wide enough cross section of society, for many woman it is purely financial reasons they have to go back to work, they don't always have a lot of choice (or slaves) ??

I had totally admiration for the mum the breastfed despite returning to work after two weeks (not sure if I could have left my babies after two weeks though!)

Xenia you mean?

I thought it was refreshing that the NCT woman talked about men's role in taking time off. I don't think equality will be reached until a man is just as likely to take 6 months off when he has kids as a woman.