A Third Of Working Parents Have No Childcare

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Over 800,000 mothers have left the workforce due to lack of childcare and no one's doing anything about it.

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, out today, takes a deep dive into how working parents are faring during the pandemic. Of over 1,000 working parents surveyed, a stunning 33% — the largest share — said they currently had no childcare whatsoever. This number is over twice as high as it was during the pre-pandemic era, when 14% said they had no childcare at all. Before COVID, 45% were using daycare, 19% had a nanny or babysitter, 15% had been stay-at-home, and 15% received childcare through a relative.

“Pre-COVID, we had more women in the workforce than ever, and that number was growing. It wasn't stalling out,” Eggert recalls. The fact that COVID so quickly erased that progress means that, “While the number of women in the workforce was growing, we weren't putting in the infrastructure to support them on an ongoing basis. We didn’t have a system set up.”facilities have shut down

Related to the guilt and shame is how unseen and unheard many parents said they feel. While a permanent framework of childcare benefits is of course necessary, many working parents expressed that among the things they wanted most was for employers and colleagues to understand what it’s like to workraise a child during COVID. 63% of women and 51% of men said that they wanted their employer to “normalize empathy and patience for working parents.

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