'I was never able to not worry about childcare or money. I feel a real sadness, like I've lost something' – Stacey Solomon
Down the line to Stacey Solomon in London, there is hope, perhaps, that post-Covid, we will find ourselves kinder to working mothers. As the conversation flows, there are noisy interruptions, as at one point the dog starts barking, another minute there are children’s voices, and later, some loud crashing that she says is one of her three sons “breaking everything in the cupboards”. It’s all very pandemic, very WFH, where allowances have to be made for private and professional lives playing out on the same premises. However, as many women know, that was life pre-pandemic, too, we just ...