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.
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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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Throughout the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden made big promises to women and families.
He would bail out day-care centers. He would introduce mandatory paid family leave. He would make child care more accessible and affordable so that the millions of women forced out of their jobs in the pandemic could get back to work.
While the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill, passed on March 11, included some revolutionary provisions for families, they are temporary, meant to keep families afloat until they can put the coronavirus behind them. Many parents have been eagerly anticipating President Biden’s infrastructure bill, a landmark piece of legislation expected to include sweeping benefits for caregivers and fundamentally reshape the U.S. child-care system.
Women of Color Go into Construction Trades
The annual pay for a plumber in Omaha, Nebraska, with three years of experience is around $55,000 a year, while a certified nursing assistant there earns $30,000. Or compare an electrician in the Phoenix area making $62,000 to $39,000 for a dental assistant.
Recognizing that many of the occupations dominated by women don’t pay well, young women of color are increasingly moving into the construction trades. Black, Latina, and Asian women and women of mixed race account for 45 percent of the 308,000 women working in the trades. This exceeds their 38 percent share of the women’s labor force overall, according to an analysis of 2016-2018 data by Ariane Hegewisch of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The largest group is Latina women.
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