I'm A Dad And A Childminder. It's Time We Stopped Asking Whose Job It Is To Care

I’m a dad. I’m also a childminder. It’s such a rare combination that only a few hundred people in England can say the same.

Of course, I knew going into it that the profession was unlikely to have a 50/50 gender split, but even I was taken aback to learn that men make up just 3% of the childcare workforce.

I’ll tell anyone who will listen that it’s one of the best, most fulfilling jobs out there – so it saddens me to think that half of the working population might be automatically ruling it out.

And it makes me wonder why we aren’t doing more to change that.

Millions of families depend on childcare in daily life and the sector desperately needs Read Entire Article