On Child Caregiver Day today, 150 men will also be placed in a pedestal. They are rare: barely two percent of childcare workers are men. There are two working at the Appelboompje (Helan) childcare center in Oosterzele: Niels (32) and ‘Nielsje’ (23). “Campaigns to attract more men to childcare do not help.”
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98 percent of women work in shelters, but Appelboompje in Oosterzele has two men: “’Can he heat up bottles?’, I saw parents thinking”
