The Economist.
I’m putting him in here.
Yes.
Then put him in here.
This is Jamie, who’s three, playing with his mum, Philippa, at home in south London.
Yeah, yeah,.
An adventure.
An adventure.
I’m just talking under the sea.
Philippa is in her late 30s.
A qualified lawyer and now a teacher by profession.
But with three children, all boys between the ages of three and seven,
paid work has taken a backseat.
Yeah, I guess the last nine years has been about trying to have children and having children,
and then starting to raise them.
After her first child was born, Philippa left work to be a stay at her mum.
Think stayed like that for four years.
Then when her youngest, Jamie, was nearly two.
Philippa returned to work two days a week.
As a result, a gender pay gap has opened up in her home between Philippa and her husband,