I hope that the help provided women will improve, precisely because I wish to work as long as possible. Given my condition, I must make choices, but I want to continue working. We need more normal avenues than a reduction in the number of hours or of the waiting period if we want to have a life. It is all fine and dandy to say goodbye to certain things and to cut everywhere, but there comes a time when there is nothing left to cut.
It is wrong to say that we choose to work part time. If I had the choice, I would certainly return to working full time, and today I would have a fat salary and I would be living the good life, which I no longer have the means to do. It is but a small proportion of people who choose to work part time. I do not believe that single parent women who are having trouble making ends meet and who are holding down two or three jobs when they are able to are making this choice.