Our lovely childminder wrapped up her job in 2022 after having our boys for nine years - funding played a huge part in this. We chose a childminder because it offered a smaller group/more homely setting than a nursery and it's a shame that fewer children can access that now.

Yep I remember it well!

I notice she talks about Female Chauvinist Pigs! My copy of that has so many pages turned down and highlighted sections.

As opposed to just a few years earlier when talking about being a feminist was considered cringey and desperately uncool.

And what I don't think a lot of people realised was that big 00s/10s divide of how mainstream feminism was and how feminists were perceived.

Yep 💯. I was involved in a discussion about this on Substack the other week. There was a post by a slightly younger woman about 2010s feminism and how it was all girlboss social media posturing and let's just say quite a few of us were doing some educating in the comments.