We need to spend more on our childcare workers first

By Letters to the Editor
May 8 2021 - 5:30am
Readers are critical of Housing ACT's failure to ensure all its tenants comply with their obligations. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong
Readers are critical of Housing ACT's failure to ensure all its tenants comply with their obligations. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

As a feminist of course I agree that, as Jenna Price puts it, childcare is "a bridge over which we can cut inequality and give women a way into the workforce" ("The crucial piece of infrastructure", May 7, p58) but surely it is a whole lot more.

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