Professional Work on “Babysitter Pay”?Home-Based Childcare Providers’ Perspectives on Their Inclusion in the German Childcare System
Guest blog post by Nina Hogrebe and Solvei Wiederhold, TU Dortmund University, Germany Photo by Solvei Wiederhold “We’re being told: ‘Please work in a highly professional way.’ But in the end – to put it very bluntly – you still only get your babysitter pay.” This statement from a German home-based childcare provider captures a…