@43d7c4ea can only agree, years before the pandemic did have one colleague quit when she couldn’t get flexible working to spend more time on childcare. Now it’s quite common for a zoom call to be ended by someone (either parent) having to go drive a child around. It shouldn’t however automatically be the mother who is spending more time on childcare, but suspect that’s a different conversation 

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There's some evidence that men think they're doing more in the way of #childcare & housework than they are... so even when the supposed intent is there, it still plays out in gendered patterns