wow... heated!!!
going back to the original post I would guess that the reasn for them targeting women would be that the people using the toilets would probably feel more comfortable with a female cleaner. For no real reason other than than people are odd
don't think it's right but that's my assumption
as for this other conversation... well firstly if it's my role to do all the domesticy stuff and look after the kids then I feel bad for my future children lol, I fail at housework and at the whole nurtury thing...
On the thing about one parent working and one looking after the children thing, I am not sure that's financial viable in a lot of siturations... I have several friends with children and in most cases both work, and I have seen how much they struggle. One of my closest friends has a 4 year old child, and both her and her husband work, their son now is at school most days, but before this a LOT of people would help out with looking after him. Mainly his uncle, but there are also a lot of his parents friends who help (he calls us all uncle/aunt lol). I don't think he's suffered due to this, he is an amazing child and basically just has a GIANT extended family... Afterall you don't need to be connected by blood to be family
There is also the issue of single parents... I know a few single parents, one of whom basically has no family to assist him so he basically had to stop working and look after the child until she was old enough to go to school and now he has to juggle childcare and working. He feels very guilty about this I know, but the alternative is to go back onto benefits which he also feels guilty about...
erm... I forget where I was going with this lol