that not only did child care closures last year increase joblessness among mothers of young children in the short-term, those unemployment effects grew larger over time and persisted even after shutdown orders were lifted.
In the meantime, data show that in the past few months, “moms are kind of pulling back,” said Heggeness of the Census Bureau, who has broken down Labor Department data to examine how mothers living with dependent children are faring compared to women overall. “Some of them, it appears, are struggling to stay actively working.
For many women, it’s not one hurdle keeping them on the sidelines at this point but a combination — a blend of health concerns as the pandemic lingers and difficulties finding a job that pays enough to cover the costs of child care. however, there could be another one moving in — or moving up. That’s the scenario some economists are hopeful comes from the coronavirus pandemic, which upended the office environment and could ultimately end up benefiting women over the long term.
Other policymakers and child care advocates are bullish that because of the spotlight the pandemic put on the country’s lack of so-called caring infrastructure — school and daycare shutdowns made it impossible to ignore — it started a national conversation that could lead to actual policy changes, especially around child care and paid leave.
it's the dawning of the era of the work-from-home housewife ..
Let’s see. We are paid the least. Treated like crap. And you wonder where we went. Sixty women Bill Cosby abused and he’s a free man. Maybe it’s time to treat women better. Put female advocates in our police forces, our Labor Department if we still have one. Everything is crap.
Affordable, quality child- and elder-care and living wages. It's not complicated.
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Women get hosed again.
Affordable Childcare
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