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There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

Women face enough pressures and challenges in a workplace that is still depressingly biased against a female's success. Add to that, the fact that the very thing many women I know find most rewarding (having kids) is now frowned upon.

For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital.

Some women work while they are pregnant, but not me. That was a choice I had made. That's when I took a break. Men can work at whatever stage they are; whether they turn daddy, they still have their own thing. But women can't afford that because by being mothers, they have to be there for their kids.

Any woman in any career has to think about when they have children, if they want to have children, and how it's going to affect their career.

I've been really fortunate that I've worked with a lot of strong women who are also mothers.

I was once a single mother, with very few resources, so I have a special place in my heart for women in difficult situations.

I have a daughter who I love very much, I hire women, I've worked with women, I've never had an issue with women.

A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly for those mothers who work hard, and can't do it all the time.