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Childcare in the News - 28th May 2009

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Men Working in Childcare

Thursday, May 28, 2009

The childcare sector in Ireland has the lowest representation of male workers in Europe -- less than one per cent. In this female-dominated sector, many children in childcare have no contact with men between 8am and 5pm.

In a society that is increasingly concerned with equality issues, we need to look at men in childcare as a viable option:

  • Children benefit because men bring new ideas and ways of working into childcare.
  • Fathers benefit because they have someone to relate to and may feel more at ease.
  • Staff benefit because more gender-balanced staff teams give different ways of looking at issues and use different approaches.
  • Having men working in childcare shows children that manliness can include caring.

This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Independent, May 28, 2009

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