At a time when there is a tendency to simplify the childcare debate, a geography professor has offered some welcome complexity.
Geography is no longer what it was - oxbow rivers and capitals of countries - it has been transformed by scholars, mostly feminists, who have reformed the study of how men, women and children inhabit the landscape, and access power, time, knowledge, land, labour and love.
Linda McDowell, geography professor at Oxford, has published research on how women organise and access childcare in cities of the global economy.
What it tells us is that women's lives are mired in complication. They don't make simple, willed choices between home and work, career or care.
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