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There is now one working day left for parents and carers to work out whether their child is going to school, whether there will be available childcare and whether they can fit all this together with their job. This is contempt for women writ very large.
Contempt for mothers: Working women and mothers are losing jobs at a higher rate than men and doing more unpaid childcare: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20201021-why-this-recession-disproportionately-affects-women
Contempt for teachers, three-quarters of whom are women: https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/workforce-and-business/workforce-diversity/school-teacher-workforce/latest
Contempt for NHS workers, 77 percent of whom are women: https://www.nhsemployers.org/engagement-and-networks/health-and-care-women-leaders-network/women-in-the-nhs
There is not a single woman on the government's cabinet committees on Covid 19 operations, domestic and economic strategy or economic operations: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jul/11/its-a-boys-club-johnson-accused-of-running-blokey-government
The Covid press briefings have been led by men for months: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/16/no-10s-covid-press-briefings-led-exclusively-by-men-for-past-six-months
Yet countries with women in charge are doing better at managing Covid - they test more rigorously and they listen to scientists: https://www.ft.com/content/6b597385-ba51-413a-96bd-cb75d3446718
Failing to cope with a pandemic is one thing. Surrendering one half of the population to it, in order to protect the economic choices of the other half is unconscionable.
