The Government is considering extending high quality universal childcare and early years provision to children as young as two over the next 10 years.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke about the need to extend universal childcare in his speech to the Labour party conference on Tuesday and a document was released at the weekend in which the Government talks about how Nordic countries have introduced high-quality childcare and how this has increased social mobility. "High quality childcare and early years provision must be a strategic priority," it says.
Meanwhile, the party's deputy leader Harriet Harman spoke about how the credit crunch would mean more women would be forced to go back to work earlier than they had anticipated. She said the credit crunch would affect women differently from men.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown spoke about the need to extend universal childcare in his speech to the Labour party conference on Tuesday and a document was released at the weekend in which the Government talks about how Nordic countries have introduced high-quality childcare and how this has increased social mobility. "High quality childcare and early years provision must be a strategic priority," it says.
Meanwhile, the party's deputy leader Harriet Harman spoke about how the credit crunch would mean more women would be forced to go back to work earlier than they had anticipated. She said the credit crunch would affect women differently from men.
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Women managers could wait till 2195 to get pay equality
Women managers may not achieve equal pay with men for 187 years, says a report from the Chartered Management Institute.The survey of over 40,000 managers shows that women managers earned on average £32,614 last year, compared with £46,269 for men, although women's pay increased by 6.8% over the year compared to 6.6% for men.
Women managers in IT would take even longer than 187 to achieve pay parity, says the report. The biggest gender pay gap was in insurance where men earned 45.2% more than women.
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Traditional men 'earn more than those with egalitarian views'
Men who hold more stereotypical views of gender roles make more money than those who are more egalitarian, according to research from the University of Florida.
Men who hold more stereotypical views of gender roles make more money than those who are more egalitarian, according to research from the University of Florida.
Organisational psychologists Timothy Judge and Beth Livingston found that men who hold more traditional views earned on average $11,930 more annually for doing the same kind of work as men who held more egalitarian views. Women workers with more egalitarian views earned $1,052 more than women who did similar jobs but held more traditional views.
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