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How outdated/out of touch was that line about Women managing children in a covid world? Just say "parents".
by marketingPro 6y ago
How outdated/out of touch was that line about Women managing children in a covid world?
Just say "parents".
- shadowgovt 6y agoUnfortunately, the numbers do bear out that women are being extremely disproportionately hit by the need to manage children in a distributed manner during COVID. https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1071502 https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1071502 https://www.npr.org/2020/05/09/853073274/women-bear-the-brunt-of-coronavirus-job-losses https://www.npr.org/2020/05/09/853073274/women-bear-the-brun... In the US at least (and anecdotally), the driving factor appears to be that in a mixed-gender two-adult household, it is basically assumed that if someone has to step back from their job to watch kids, it's the woman---either because she makes less money than her male partner or because businesses are less flexible with granting men off-time for parenting than they are granting women such time. These factors aren't universally true, but I suspect they're on-average true enough to be driving the visible stats.