Sometimes it is hard to avoid coming across as lacking in sympathy. It is reported today that a Mumsnet survey indicates that many women feel that having a child harms their career, and it is also reported that the government is selling off £900m in student loans debt. Apparently a lot of graduates fear that this will result in them being hounded for outstanding payments by private companies.
Regarding women in the workplace, Britain has persistently very high levels of unemployment. In fact I am not sure that unemployment has been below the million mark since the 1970s, and even then the level of unemployment was much higher than in the 1960s.
People who are in work should therefore be grateful that they are lucky enough to be in work when so many people are not so lucky. People who think that they are being unfairly held back in the workplace are welcome to complain, but would do well to reflect that they could be a lot worse off.
If you are not unemployed and miserable right now, then you could be before long.
As for graduates worried about debt, I feel compelled to point out that they are all volunteers. Not one of them was forced to go to university, and therefore each one of them chose to burden themselves with graduate debt. Of course they could refuse to vote in elections except for a political party which has pledged to cancel all graduate debt, but will they? Does such a party even exist?
Trouble is, most of these students form overseas will bugger off home and never repay the tax payer of this country.
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