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Covid-19 Forced More Americans to Juggle Working From Home and Child Care
A Labor Department survey shows the extent to which working parents, particularly women, have multitasked.
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Women provided 3 times more child care than men during pandemic, analysis finds
"The immense inequality on who is providing unpaid care is staggering," said the analysis's author.
S1E78: Caregiving as Infrastructure / Stephanie Coontz, Julie Morita, Erika Moritsugu, Sarah Murphy - Just Human Productions
More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost and effort of caring for children and older family members during the pandemic. In this episode of EPIDEMIC, we’ll hear why the United States is the only wealthy nation not to offer comprehensive support to parents, why caregiving is a critical part of American infrastructure, and what’s at stake if parents and caregivers are forgotten.
Ten economic facts on how mothers spend their time
The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a toll. The pressures that mothers of young children (defined throughout as having a child under the age of 13 in the household) have faced over the course of the CO…
Why We Still Think Caregiving Isn’t a Job | Dame Magazine
Our struggle to value caregiving has capitalist roots, but changing economic policy starts with dismantling the idea of caregiving as the altruistic woman’…
Decades of economic progress women made catching up to men evaporated in just one year
As quickly as those gains were erased, it could take much, much longer for them to return.