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Two mechanisms should be helpful in takcling the gender pay gap:
1. The salaries of all employees in the company should be openly published, and this must be required by law, and
2. there must be a mechanism that allows employess to aks their employer ( in writing) to explain a pay gap, if any exists.
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Proposal for a Policy Motion for the Scottish Spring Conference 2010:
EDUCATION - RE-THINKING THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF LIFE AND THE STATUS OF PARENTING.

Conference is concerned that:
1. Too great an emphasis on providing more universal childcare may not be the best approach to supporting parents and young children in the early years.
2. Recent research into brain development shows that the first three years of life are vital for any human being to reach full potential. Without the right mix of stimulation and secure attachment – usually from one or both parents – a child may be in line for attachment and behavioural difficulties – and in the long term mental health problems.
3. Beginning nursery too early forces the child’s separation from its parents, which happens naturally, usually in the third year of life. This can threaten that continuity between parent and child, vital to healthy brain development.
4. Without such stimulation and attachment, it has been shown that the brain loses its capacity to make important internal connections and to take on information in a sponge-like way by the third year. In extreme cases of neglect, the brain is under-developed and stays that way.
5. In our society, the role of parent has no parity of status with almost any job. The simple fact that we can suggest that “leave” from one’s main job should be given to support parenting, rather than the other way around – “leave” from one’s responsibilities as a parent to go to work – indicates how far we have fallen.
6. Without good-enough parenting, there will be no workforce and no economy –and indeed in some sectors of society, caught in cycles of deprivation, neglect and abuse, there is only unemployment and a black market economy.
7. It is currently estimated (report by New Philanthropy Capital, “Heads Up”, 2009) that a child excluded from school costs the state upwards of £20,000, and that in the school career of that child – with their accrued difficulties – this will rise to over £60,000. Such statistics, tied as they are to families where parenting skills are low, and neglect is rife, suggest that the earliest intervention is the most economic and has the best chance of success.

This motion proposes therefore that:
1. Parenting is accorded the status of a professional job, given its fundamental importance.
2. Tied to that status is a requirement for adequate training in child-development and parenting. This should be first introduced into the core curriculum in High Schools, on a par with other core subjects such as maths, English etc. Such training – stepped up with the imminence of parenthood – should also be given recognition in the workplace. The transferable skills gained as a good-enough parent are arguably, both emotional and practical primers for some of the hardest management tasks.
3. In recognition of its revised status, a way is found to re-direct resources – both statutory and corporate – to pay a meaningful wage (not a benefit) for the job, with provisos around parents accepting ongoing training and support.
E.S 1.1.10