Have you considered a Childcare business?
Childcare is hot in 2018, and female entrepreneurship is on the rise in Canada and the US. Borrowing money is cheap, and service-based businesses with low overheads can turn big profits when they’re well-managed, and offer flexibility.
Across the spectrum, women have the most to benefit when quality childcare is widely available, and around the world, women are most likely providing it.
The Coalition for Ontario Childcare released a Feb. 2013 report titled “Around 1% of Early Childhood Educators are men,” and a 2014 paper by Australia’s Ministry of Education found that while 2.1% of all teachers in Australia are men, it’s less than 0.8% of home daycare workers.
It’s not only because men don’t want to do the work, it just doesn’t come to them naturally.
On the home front: obviously, many fathers do participate in their children’s upbringing, and that’s great, but it’s not even close to 50%. A count of over 1,200 Vancouver family daycare applications found a woman listed as the Primary Guardian over 90% of the time.
For the sake of simplicity, let’s just agree that “Childcare” affects women the most.
That doesn’t have to be a bad thing!
Modern Mamas have the world at their finger tips
You know you can search for any knowledge in the world with the click of a button, right?
“Okay Google,”
The childcare industry is regulated, which means all the rules are written down. They’re online, here: Rules for Operating a Licensed Childcare in BC.
And the Laws for BC Corporations, and the Personal Information Protection Act, … you get the picture.
So what makes you think you can’t do it?
The cost of childcare in 2018 is more than tuition for a university degree. Two children in care is equivalent to a mortgage payment. Staying home with your own, and caring for another kid or two is a tempting option – “License Not Required.”
And staying home with the kids, and running a home-based business, or consulting, is another attractive choice. Especially if you have a good local daycare available when you need it.
It’s not a fantasy!
Women make great CEOs. We have excellent long-range vision, and we communicate. Working with women can be an enriching collaborative process, or a catty nightmare, and in both cases, the problems, and the solutions, are uniquely female.
Deal with it.
Explore it!
This fall, we invite you to join the line-up of fabulous female entrepreneurs and professionals who will be helping us to present Canada’s first childcare-industry business conference, on May 6, in Vancouver.
It’s What Women Want… in a business conference.
The schedule is coming soon, and we are still accepting nominations and sponsors. If you’d like to submit a request, please check out the Sponsorship Letter and get in touch!