Letters
Private care homes capitalise on the outdated expectation that people in the care sector, most of whom are women, should be labouring purely out of love THE revelation of the 2000 Covid deaths in private care homes has been labelled a crisis by some. But the crisis has been going on for a lot longer. Abuse, abandonment, neglect and unnecessary death are the shameful consequence of entrusting the dignity of thousands of vulnerable lives to the hands of profit. The scandalous pay care workers receive is just the icing on this tiered cake of death and pound notes. The sexism of expecting those in a field dominated by female workers to not only accept but expect less than a living wage reeks with the audacity of a 1950s husband eyeing up his secretary.