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Margaret Carey

Margaret Carey is a director of a Sydney long day care centre.

March 2017

  • Childcare workers during a protest for better pay arrangements in Melbourne, 2016.

    I'm walking off the job for the first time in my life. As an educator, that's a big deal

    Margaret Carey
    My simmering frustration at the treatment of early childhood educators has reached boiling point. What kind of society values care and education so poorly?

November 2016

  • Childcare workers with kids at childcare centre

    Childcare workers are underpaid because we’re women. We are the working poor

    Margaret Carey
    Women are exploited because of our capacity to put others’ needs ahead of our own. We are underpaid because we care – and we’re angry