Workplace Making The Case: We’re Thinking About Child Care All Wrong In our latest series, Making The Case, Future Women's arguer-in-chief Jamila Rizvi arms you with the right ammunition to tackle the childcare debate. Turns out we've been thinking about it all wrong. By Jamila Rizvi Workplace In our latest series, Making The Case, Future Women's arguer-in-chief Jamila Rizvi arms you with the right ammunition to tackle the childcare debate. Turns out we've been thinking about it all wrong. By Jamila Rizvi Previous article Book Review: Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee Next article A Sustainable Investment: Best Buys For Conscious Consumers Child care was historically viewed as a means to an end. It was about finding someone to care for young children while mum worked or did other things. Of course, this is probably the world’s actual earliest profession, having existed in some form or another since the dawn of time. In the days of communal living, there were veritable armies of aunties and cousins and friends and sisters and older siblings who would hold bub while mum sneakily managed some much needed me-time. (Probably by claiming she was berry picking or hunting wild boar while actually getting a well-deserved waterfall massage). As we have evolved, so too has childcare, and the debate has spiraled into arguments about subsidies and numbers and blame.In our Making The Case series Future Women provides the facts, figures and foundations you need to mount complex gender equity arguments. We tackle the big issues, one-by-one and step-by-step, so that you no longer feel ill-equipped to make the case for what you really care about. Today, our Editor at Large, Jamila Rizvi tackles the complex issue of child care and explains why we’re actually thinking about this critical policy question all wrong. Let’s take it back to the basics. Making The Case is a series providing the facts, figures and foundations you need to mount complex gender equity arguments. We tackle the big issues, one-by-one and step-by-step, so that you no longer feel ill-equipped to make the case for what you really care about. makingthecase Best Of Future Women Leaders How this CEO stamps out passive-aggressive behaviours By FW Leaders The six values guiding this former Premier By FW Leadership New FW partnership to boost number of women in cybersecurity By FW Gender diversity Soft Power By Briana Blackett Gender diversity Be honest. Did you think Bluey was a boy? By Briana Blackett Gender diversity Cyber expert laments “lost generation” in online misogyny panel By Sally Spicer Gender diversity Is this at the bottom of your To-Do list? By Briana Blackett Gender diversity The Confidence Gap By FW Your inbox just got smarter If you’re not a member, sign up to our newsletter to get the best of Future Women in your inbox.