There’s a reason many mothers give up work

I had Monday off as I was ill. At 11am today I got a phone call asking me to collect my sick six year old. That means I worked a total of about one and half days this week. Given I’ve now got just nine working days left at this job, that’s a big time impact! I’ve written before about how hard it can be when you’re basically a single parent most of the time, trying to share one allocation of sick days between four (soon to be five!) people, and weeks like this one make you even more conscious...