Women refused permission to WFH while kids are off school

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/27/mothers-say-they-being-kept-at-work-uk-as-fathers-stay-home

More men than women are allowed to work from home at the moment, supposedly as men wouldn't be expected to pick up childcare.

@SimonJT - oh Christ, I was worried afterwards you'd take it that way. I'm glad it was done in an online survey though. What I meant was in straight couples it's much much more common for employers to assume women are going to do the juggling. There was a tweet the other day from a woman teacher, married to a teacher, with a sick son. She had done the first three days and when he rang to say he'd be off that day, his school asked how many days his wife had done - the assumption being she should be putting herself out first.

Oddly enough my employer doesn’t have a straight or gay register, so they’d have no idea who I do or don’t live it.

You utterly misunderstand me. I’m very sorry about that, and that you have been offended.

The ridiculous bit is expecting people to work shifts because they have children and this crisis to have zero impact on business. My work fortunately are being understanding, that with the best will in the world, if you have a tiny house and a clingy four year old and 8 year old having to do school work with deadlines from teachers, no one is going to get the same level as work done as in the office. It's all very well saying mum and dad should work shifts, but what about single parent families? Or people with lots of children of different ages and not much space? I'm sick of people pretending we can make this normal. It's not.