Children's minister Margaret Hodge wants more men in nurseries. The Equal Opportunities Commission wants more men in nurseries. Fathers Direct wants more men in nurseries. Some women want men in nurseries.
What is this all about, when there is little or no evidence that the great men's movements - from the TUC, to the Rotary Club, to the House of Commons, the police, the Football Association, the Army, the Confederation of British Industry - have any interest in promoting men in childcare?
The tone of the plea to get men into childcare presupposes that they have been excluded, when, historically, they escaped.
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