Alex Jones ( The One Show)

What on earth does this have to do with anyone else. Personally I love Alex and I think she does a really good job. She makes it look easy because she is a brilliant presenter. What she earns and how she brings up her child are none of our business. Why do we still put down other women.

You wouldn't think so, would you, in 2018!!

You wouldn't think we'd had suffragettes and Women's Liberation - are women their own worst enemies?

Anne Robinson in a recent programme asked school children to draw pictures of a surgeon, a firefighter and an engineer, most drew pictures of males.

I have no idea who she is but wanting a child and wanting to work are not incompatible desires.

Wel, said POGS,

I like Alex Jones and I see absolutely no issue with her writing a book, returning to her career after 3 months , commenting on the disparity of wages between male and female BBC employees etc. I think they are all perfectly normal things to do .

I like her because she is not a prima donna and has a down to earth nature that allows for self - deprecation .

It must be horrible to have a 'Stalker' as she did and I thought she handled herself very well over what must have been a horrid time in her life. She certainly did not court any limelight as others may well have done.

Alex Jones made a documentary for BBC 1 a couple of years ago called ' Fertility and Me ' and it was very good. It is not on I player / catch up so if anybody is remotely interested in catching a glimps I have put up a couple links to short clips of it .

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p048cb3s
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p048c8lr
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3789550/Pregnant-Alex-Jones-reveals-expert-advice-given-boost-fertility.html

I am far from being a feminist but I think Alex Jones is not a person I would have thought would court such a backlash for doing and saying quite normal things .

Each to their own I guess.

I wonder if it is as common for men to be so eager to put the boot in about other men as it is for women to do so about other women.

I can't imagine how we will ever achieve equality in the home, in employment and in public life in general if some women insist on describing mums who stay at home as lazy or mums who go out to work as neglectful and disapprove of the notion of having quotas for women because "it should be the best person for the job" - implying that, in general, women are in some way sub-standard.

I had thought that one of the outcomes of the massive leaps forward in technology would be that working hours would be much shorter, so that both men and women could work part time and so more equally share child care. I think I'm right in saying that average working hours have changed very little in 60 years or so.

Exactly the point I have been trying to make MibsXX there is a huge difference between doing a job you hate because you have to and have no choice and doing something you love because you love to do it .

as someone who worked since I was 15 and raised a family AND ran a house and two businesses..I wondered exactly what SAHM found to do all day .Is it really necessary or do the mothers just like a wee skive ?

GoldenAge - well said
horror - how is Matt Baker managing his child care? I understand his OH is a working woman, are they sharing child care, do they have a nanny - or is she taking time out to be a SAHM

Is anyone interested?
No - because he's a man.

Well said GoldenAge

Same old, same old.

I have a terrible job, that actually takes far more time to do than I am paid for, but to be fair, allows me to be there for my son... I HATE my job.. with a vengeance, but given where I live, have no choice, there is NOTHING else here, it's only "officially" part time but drains me so much I am knackered the rest of the time... so yes, there is a smacking big difference between doing a job you enjoy and a nasty tiring one you do because you simply have to to survive

the thread began about a wealthy woman who chooses not to care for her baby herself. Seems odd to me. Who would the baby rather be with? It's own mum or a nanny?
I expect that Alex Jones has plenty of time to spend with her baby - and her DH and/or nanny will be there when she can't because of her career commitments.

I don't think a baby cares really, as long as it's fed, dry, warm and happy

Alex Jones doesn't only do The One Show, she appears on other programmes and other channels - so she isn't a part-timer.

Good luck to AJ returning to work if that is her choice.It is the ridiculously high salaries paid by the BBC which we should be concerned about.Nearly one million pounds a year is paid to present that show.The gap between the rich and the rest grows wider every day.

Where is Dad in this scenario? Why is Mum always pilloried, whatever she does.

Nanny27 a happy mum will have a happy baby ,my daughter had bad PND after baby 1 ,so when baby 2 was born she wanted to get back to work quickly.She went back when my GD was 3 weeks old... and she job shared with me and we shared child care too.With me walking to the office with GD for breastfeeds .It made all the difference to her and her consultant who suggested it was absolutely right to do so,she didn't get the crippling PND she had first time around .

I think Alex Jones and her husband baby share, many do this now. I would choose a nanny so the baby could stay in his/her home than go to a nursery. Many do not have the choice .

Lots of Young Mums love shared care, if they can afford it and to have the adult contact and challenges of work. Plus the baby gives them a social life. Win win.

Having read through this thread (supposed to be working?) I can't see much time given to the baby in the debate. Most posts seem to focus on mum's happiness, either at home or at work, but what is best for the baby? Surely when you become a mum your child's needs are put above your own. Whilst I totally understand that there are a lot of mum's who must work to pay bills etc, the thread began about a wealthy woman who chooses not to care for her baby herself. Seems odd to me. Who would the baby rather be with? It's own mum or a nanny?

Gosh why do TV and radio "personalities" get paid so much money?! Just for whittering away ...

Who watches Loose Women? It makes my teeth curl.

That’s amazing Paddyann very good for you ! I think it’s very different when you love what you do.

Gilly it was my own business that I started when I was 21 ,I still work in it 40 years on and still love it.Part time now though as I look after 4 GC ....a lot

Can't stand The One Show - the music alone makes us rush to turn the channel over if it's inadvertently on BBC1 so I had no idea who AJ was until she was on LW this week. My husband's pet hate when anyone comes on any programme promoting their new book/record/tv show - he's Mr Cynical personified. She seemed quite nice though and did say that she and her husband found it very difficult looking after the new baby. But didn't we all? Very few new parents breeze through the first year with no worries. Not sure it gives us the impetus to write a book about it.

If I'm remembering the correct show, when The One Show was launched, the original female presenter was a very pregnant Mylene Klass. She gave birth very soon after, and never presented the show again. AJ does well to return quickly!

Is it the weather as this is the most judgemental and fractious thread for a long time our site (I've got horrendous hay fever and sneezing and irritable)? Live and let live, let's not start bickering amongst ourselves. Alex is a woman luckily in a position to make choices not forced back to work for money. If she wants to go to work with a new baby so what? I didn't and stayed home until the youngest went to school at 5 - but that was my choice backed by my husband. Does seem a little envious from some. And if you don't want to read her book, dont. Sad to comment she shouldn't have written because of who she is.