Tam Baillie, Scotland’s Commissioner for Children and Young People, said tackling the gender imbalance in the early years workforce was a “key issue” which had to be addressed.
“Children and young people need positive male role models as well as female ones, in terms of caring relationships,” he said.
“Many men would, I believe, like to play a bigger part in child rearing, but work with children and young people continues to be seen as the domain of women and is not sufficiently valued or remunerated, perpetuating the imbalance that already exists.
Manpower is needed to bridge childcare’s gender gap, Judith Duffy (Herald Scotland)
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