November 10, 2008
Well, would you believe it, the answer to the age-old gender pay gap was right under our noses - or finger tips.
Yes Esther Guys - not a US college hockey team but a mother-of-three from Surrey - is about to allow women to finally have it all.
She has created a social networking website for school children and their parents.
The site - www.schooltogethernow.com - aims to connect children as young as five and their parents to their local schools, creating an online community similar to the one you might get if you - whisper it quietly - actually did the school run.
Guys said: "There must be thousands of parents like me all over the country who struggle with full time work and commitments to their kids.
"I have a 90-mile round trip to work every single day, and it means I miss out on the school run and on meeting other mums and dads at my girls' schools.
"I decided to launch this website because due to the limitations on my time I struggled to build a rapport with the other mums in the playground."
Limitations on her time? She managed to set up a blooming social networking site for five-year-olds and then bombard our ears with it didn't she? Perhaps if she had spent that time asking her kids how their days were she would have known a bit more about the local community.
Ah well, at least we can forget the debate about whether women are unfairly discriminated against in the workplace. All they need to do is get up at 5am, prepare their kids for school, drive 50 miles to work, have pointless back-to-back meetings all day, drive back, cook dinner, clean the house and then log on to their computers to find out what their little ones did at school.
Meanwhile, Guru will be in the living room trying to watch TV and telling them to turn that social networking racket off. The age of equality is upon us.
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