Forget for a minute the amazing hubris of a rich, glamorous CEO, with a nursery specially built next to her office, ordering less well-compensated parents to trudge back to the office, leaving their less important offspring in daycare or in the hands of nannies.

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The symbolism of this move could well turn out to be as significant as the pragmatic economics - as another step in the re-ordering of global relationships and partnership.

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