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Sam Walsh has worked in retail every Boxing Day for the last 20 years.

She told Woman’s Hour’s Emma Barnett that she quit her job in October because she thinks there’s an expectation that women like her, without children, work over the Christmas period, and pick up the slack ‘so that working mums can have time off with their families’.

Sam also runs The Non-Mum Network Facebook group and website, and says that working parents shouldn’t be given priority for time off.

Sam explained that she’s childless due to infertility, and that she wanted to be a parent, so when people sometimes imply that her time isn’t worth as much, it was ‘another kick.’

You can listen to the full interview with Sam on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Sounds – it’s the Woman's Hour episode from 18 December.