Parental Participation In A Pandemic Labor Market this post authored by Olivia Lofton, Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, and Lily Seitelman
Gender gaps in labor market outcomes during the pandemic largely reflect differences in parents’ experiences. Labor force participation fell much less for fathers compared with other men and all women at the onset of the pandemic; the recovery has been more pronounced for men and women without children. Meanwhile, labor force participation among mothers declined with the start of the school year. Evidence suggests flexibility in setting work schedules can offset some of the adverse impact on mothers’ employment, while the ability to work from home does not.
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Pandemic Pushed Many Moms Out of the Workforce
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting upheaval in public education has undermined decades of feminist gains in the united states workforce, research finds.
The research, forthcoming in
Gender & Society, draws on new data from the Elementary School Operating Status (ESOS) database to show that the gender gap between mothers and fathers in the labor force has grown significantly since the onset of the pandemic in states where schools primarily offered remote instruction.
Young Women Are Dropping Out of School and Work. Is Caregiving the Culprit?
While much of the economy is beginning to bounce back, young people particularly young women are living a different reality.
Demonstrators at the Utah State Capitol in Salt Lake City in September.Credit.Rick Bowmer/Associated Press
April 8, 2021
“We’re not talking about how the caregiving crisis is impacting the learning loss for kids and how it’s disproportionately impacting girls and girls of color.” Reshma Saujani, chief executive and founder of the nonprofit Girls Who Code
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A year into the pandemic, there are signs that the American economy is stirring back to life, with a falling unemployment rate and a growing number of people back at work. Even mothers who left their jobs in droves in the last year in large part because of increased caregiving duties are slowly re-entering the work force.
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