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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Emma Gill

When the mother of all childcare promises is 'one for the mums', it proves things need to change

When Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced his free childcare plan in this week's Budget, he said 'it is the right thing to do for many women'.

In those 10 words he summed up how our so-called equal society is in fact anything but.

In the main it's women who are still classed as the primary caregivers and face endless pressures to do that - and more.

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