Forget the Mothers Day flowers. Give your mum some of your time and attention.

Black text on a lavender background: "73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: paid family leave, equal pay, universal childcare and healthcare. (But get your mom flowers, too)"

I had a thought.
Say, in a world where mothers pay for themselves:
- Two child carers care for about 10 children 8h per day. Commuting to work an back, 10 single mothers work 7h or less. They need enough income to pay 8×2=16h pretty educated child care.
- In a sustained scenario, each mother has 2.1 children. Because now for 10 children 5 mothers are paying, the earnings available shrink down to 3.5h per mother.
- Mothers usually step down on their career ladder. 3.5h pre-child job turns into some job worth 3.2h.
- Half of their income pays the rent.

So, caring for 10 children, there is less than 1.6h times 10 remaining to pay/earn for 16h of child care.

Doesn't that mean that women who earn less than a child carer are better off caring for their children themselves? Are female child carers better off keeping their job and *not* become mothers themselves? Shouldn't mothers who earn more, pay them more?

They can get it all by migrating to Europe.
And in Poland they wouldn't want equal pay, because women earn more.