The real problem is school going children, not babies.

Although India has improved a lot in recent decades female participation in the labour-force has not increased, finds Professor Stephen Klasen. "Economic growth has been high, averaging 6-7% in the 1990s and 2000s; fertility has fallen substantially; and female education level has risen dramatically, albeit from a low level. In other regions, including Latin America and the Middle East and North Africa, similar trends have led to large increases in female participation. Yet National Sample Survey (NSS) data for India show that labour force participation rates of women aged 25-54 (including primary and subsidiary status) have stagnated at about 26-28% in urban areas, and fallen substantially from 57% to 44% in rural areas, between 1987 and 2011." In fact, Indian women are actually leaving the workforce, with female participation dropping from 37% in 2005 to 27% in 2014, wrote Harry Stevens. Why? Childcare, unhelpful in laws, and social stigma would have been worse earlier. It maybe because of increase in husband's income and social schemes, such as MGNREGA. A study by Professor Sumit Agarwal et al found that MGNREGA encouraged men to drop out of factory jobs, so it must be supporting rural women to stay at home. Adding to this confusion the parliament has passed a bill to increase maternity leave, presumably paid, from 12 to 26 weeks, and forces companies to establish a creche if it has more than 30 women workers. So is it going to increase the number of women in the workforce by reducing the responsibilities of childcare or will it deter companies from employing women? When such a law was passed in Chile companies responded by reducing salaries of women by 9 to 20%, in Spain companies cut the number of female employees, while in Scandinavian countries female employment increased, but only part time. Nidhi Gupta and Priya Ravichandran argue that although the bill only benefits 10% of women, who work in the organized sector, it is still a good thing because it helps companies to achieve gender diversity. This will enormously increase inequality by helping highly paid women in senior positions, leaving poor women to struggle. How many women can afford to build a nursery next to her own office like Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, did? However, all this may become moot if 69% of jobs are lost by 2050, as predicted by the World Bank. But it is not just babies. With nuclear families someone has to stay at home to receive children when they return from school. Schools should work during normal working hours of 9AM to 5PM, with no vacations. Teachers and students would be allowed holidays in between in staggered fashion. Teachers are highly unionised and politicians will not dare to tackle them, So the problem will not be resolved.