Boys 'should get lessons in how to raise children' Ms Vere, a former banker, who stood for the Conservatives in the 2010 election, said: "Team parenting is the way the world is moving. With changes in parental leave, we have to recognise that women will need to work for the financial resilience of their families. Men will need to share more of the burden than they have been. In an interview with the Times Educational Supplement, Ms Vere, who is founder of the campaign group Women On, said there was a suspicion that boys" schools had failed to catch-up with a gender shift in society. She said they should be encouraged to "talk to their boys about family responsibilities and how they might work for them." "Boys need to be prepared for that," she said. I'm preparing my son for that. Mummies go out to work. Boys are going to have quite a big shock when they meet their life partner. They are going to be marrying or be partnered with someone as educated or more educated than they are, who has the same expectations in terms of the career as they do. It's critical to make sure that young men understand that. The comments are the latest in a line of similar claims from senior members of the GSA, which represents around 180 schools including Cheltenham Ladies College and Roedean. In 2009, former GSA president Jill Berry said that schools needed to teach girls about the realities of having children and juggling priorities, claiming that life may be more complicated than simply "having it all."