![]() They may be resigned to take jobs that don’t match their economic potential, said Reshma Saujani, founder of the nonprofit organization Girls Who Code and its Moms First, an advocacy campaign for working mothers. The pandemic’s “shecession” could set back decades of progress on workplace equality, especially among Latina, Black and Asian women. If child care gets pricier or scarcer, it could show up in ways beyond women cutting their hours or dropping out of the workforce.īusiness ‘I don’t know how I can survive.’ Women have been hit hardest by COVID’s economic toll “The importance of child care for women’s work cannot be, I think, overstated,” said Claudia Olivetti, an economics professor at Dartmouth College who focuses on women in the labor market. Even for those who were able to work from home during the pandemic, the increase in hours spent on child care for both mothers and fathers led to widely reported struggles with stress, mental health and productivity. Studies have underscored the relationship between affordable, accessible child care and women’s workforce participation. “The majority of my parents, they don’t have family here, so I am basically the only person they can rely on,” Segura said. That would have a domino effect: forcing her to cut staffing, and, in turn, reduce the number of children she serves. ![]() ![]() She worries that, in the worst-case scenario, the child-care cliff will leave her without money to pay her new hires. On the other side of the country, Bakersfield child-care provider Sandra Segura said she used at least $12,000 in federal funding she received to hire two assistants, each paid $16 an hour. The retreat by mothers with outside employment is a setback for women’s advances, both in corporate America and in narrowing the pay gap with men. Politics Women put careers on hold during COVID to care for kids.
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