At a nursery attended by my eldest son, the good news was that there was a male member of staff, but the bad news was that many parents were put off by this. Many insisted that their children's nappies were not changed by him. Imagine how that made him feel. He has moved on to other things now.
Just one in 100 nursery nurses is male. Early schooling is also increasingly a female-dominated zone - just three per cent of nursery teachers and 17 per cent of primary school teachers are men. The gender gap in care blocks men from a growing part of the labour market and it almost certainly holds wages down in the caring professions.
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