Also a huge problem in the US. We were very lucky to have access to outstanding subsidised daycare at Rockefeller when we were in NY.

"To anyone without children, nursery fees may not feel like an immediate and overwhelming threat to 21st-century feminism. But a brief look at the numbers is sobering. The costs of childcare in the UK today are higher than the majority of other high-income economies. Staggeringly, one analysis reports that the nursery bill for families with a child under two has risen by 44 per cent since the Conservatives have been in power"

https://www.newstatesman.com/quickfire/2022/11/childcare-costs-women-back-to-1950s?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1667808633