The Childcare Workers Behind the Workers
glamour.com, and abuses can proliferate. Many childcare workers around the country don’t get guaranteed sick pay; almost none have employer-provided health insurance or .
There is almost no such thing as a stable gig; kids grow up, and parents’ childcare needs can shift without warning.Even with her years of experience, Kenya has to hustle.
She struggles to save as she’d like to. But let’s state at least one upside here, for the record: “The babies are so joyful, really,” Kenya says, smiling. “I meet some nannies and I tell them, ‘I don’t think this is for you.’ You really have to have a natural love for children to be in this line of work, and you have to be patient because it’s not easy.”It’s not easy.
Not the work, not the conditions under which most low-income women do it. That was the case even before upended the working arrangements of millions of New Yorkers who once required full-time childcare workers and now seem to want nannies to be on call at all hours, but be compensated for just a fraction of them.
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