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Vice-President Kamala Harris recently said roughly 2.5 million women who have left the workforce since the beginning of the pandemic constituted a “national emergency.” That number, according to Labor Department data, compares with 1.8 million men who have left the workforce.
For many women, the demands of child care, distance learning, layoffs and furloughs has forced them out of the labor market.
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University-of-southern-californiaCaliforniaUnited-statesSan-diegoDel-cerroLa-mesaAmericaColleen-curtisCarrie-kirbyKamala-harrisBiden-administrationUniversity-of-arkansasDuring the pandemic, Kirby has continued in her job as a program manager for UC San Diego, working remotely while supervising distance learning for her second-grader. She has two kids, ages 3 and 7. Her husband travels half the time for his full-time job. People say self-care is really important during these times, but when do you do that? Kirby wondered.
A study by a group of sociologists published in a peer-reviewed academic journal, Gender and Society, found that nearly 80% of mothers have been primarily responsible for doing the housework since March. The same study showed that 66% of mothers are mainly responsible for child care among partnered parents. Three-quarters of mothers reported spending more time on overseeing distance and remote learning than dads.
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