Moms have spent about three hours more per day than fathers on child care during the pandemic, and reduced their time spent working by 4 to 4.5 times more than fathers did because of child care, according to analysis.
In one Florida school district where there are no mask requirements,"I felt like I was barely hanging on by a thread at the end of school last year and now I'm thinking I don't know what I'm going to do," said Sherman, who added she feels lucky to be able to work from home with her, an advocacy organization."I'm thinking of all the plans for 'what if.' There's everything from a seven-day quarantine to [my kids] could be out of school for 24 days.
Describing the conversations she has with other moms, Nicholson added,"We're still all on edge and everything we're talking about to each other is, 'Are you OK?'" It was a hard decision for Shrimpton, who had just been able to rejoin the workforce after moving multiple times to support her husband's career and then becoming a mom.Karen Shrimpton, of San Francisco, poses with her husband and two children, ages 8 and 12.
"It's just shock," she said."It's like I can't believe we haven't managed to get to a better place than where we are."Economists say the two main reasons so many women have been forced out of the workforce over the past nearly two years are pandemic-related job loss in women-heavy industries and, not surprisingly, the burden of child care.
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