This Working Mum’s Epic Mic Drop Moment Is Magnificent and We Love to See It
This Working Mum’s Epic Mic Drop Moment Is Magnificent and We Love to See It
A working mum has highlighted the unconscious gender bias when it comes to parental responsibility which then resulted in the most glorious mic drop we’ve seen in a long time.
It began with Lucy Greenwood’s tweet about her daughter who had told her school to ring her dad, not her mum, because she was busy at work and would not be able to pick up. But the school still rang her mum.
Yesterday: daughter ill at school “don’t ring my mum she is in hearing and won’t pick up, please ring my dad”. School rings me. #BreakTheBias
— Lucy Greenwood (@Intarblawyer) March 8, 2022
It wasn’t long before someone came along and told her that this really shouldn’t be an issue and that she should take the call anyway, chiding the mother for not having her priorities right.
If my kids’ school called me whilst i was at work i would know there is a problem and would answer the phone. End of. Don’t understand why this is an issue at all. Priorities
— realBREXITnow (@realBREXITnow) March 8, 2022
Others soon joined the discussion, arguing that sometimes you just can’t take the call if you are at work.
Because not everyone has your job. Lawyers in a trial can’t just say excuse me judge- I gotta take this call. Doctors in surgery don’t even have their phones on them I’d bet.
— Jatmallet (WS Champs) (@JATmallet) March 8, 2022
Lawyers can ask judge for time and then call back
— realBREXITnow (@realBREXITnow) March 8, 2022
He shoots, he misses and he continues to assert nonsense.
Clearly you know very little of how our courts operate and what would happen if you said to a judge “can I just have two mins, my child’s school is calling”.. You’d be scolded by the judge (rightly or wrongly)
— TheAspiLawStudent (@LawAspi) March 8, 2022
Total rubbish i don’t believe that for one minute
— realBREXITnow (@realBREXITnow) March 8, 2022
It’s very true. You aren’t actually allowed a phone on in Court, full stop. It’s mainly to stop Interruptions and to prevent recordings, but I dare you to take a phone in a court and ask a judge to delay a hearing when someone calls you if you don’t believe me.
— Ciaran McQuade (@CiaranMcQuade) March 8, 2022
So if i looked at my phone and saw a missed call from my kids school and asked the judge for five mins to call back he or she would say no and bollock me would they?
— realBREXITnow (@realBREXITnow) March 8, 2022
Are you ready for the mic drop? It’s a doozy!
I was the judge.
— Lucy Greenwood (@Intarblawyer) March 8, 2022
This is just the sort of International Women’s Day content that we want to see!
Utterly fantastic.
Twitter agreed:
Out. Standing pic.twitter.com/xs8QJQdDzO
— Eleanor Mayhew-Hills (@LawfulStudent) March 9, 2022
— Anthony Woodall (@MrSpungoe) March 9, 2022
Oh man this is gorgeous timing and so very illustrative of your point too. Well done.
— Allison M. Dickson ? (@MsAllieD) March 9, 2022
There is no coming back from this one… Brutal. pic.twitter.com/B7oHylrYzG
— Stéphanie Says…???? (@StephanieJaneG6) March 9, 2022
Just glorious.
Jill Slater
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I am retired & a stay at home dad in regional NSW. 2km or less from the school/pre-school. Mum works in the nearby “city”, about 20km away. It has taken us years of discussion, formal & informal, to represent this 21st century situation. It isn’t even relevant to our children’s wishes, and causes great anxiety for my welfare when school/pre-school ring their Mum. It becomes infuriating, when there has obviously been no effort to phone my 2 preferred contact numbers. Perhaps it is an indicator of the administration staff’s age or gender that could be addressed by employing some men for the school’s administration teams. But in this century a Departmental policy shouldn’t be necessary to filter the thought processes of Government employees, when their employment selection criteria already accounts for Equal Employment Opportunity.