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Employers should ignore Jacob Rees-Mogg and listen to what women are saying instead

The pandemic forced many women to change their working hours to absorb care work alongside paid work. But those who altered their hours or went part-time are now more likely to feel stressed and pessimistic about their career prospects. It’s an exhausting conundrum: they are paid less, employers think they are worth less, Jacob Rees-Mogg thinks they are sitting about in their jim-jams watchingbut they are working harder than ever, deeply frustrated by the situation they find themselves in.

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