Op-Ed: Why moms have it so much harder than dads during COVID time

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Working remotely ought to have helped equalize kids, cooking and more. Instead, dads are engaged in the Great COVID Cop-out.

Children have been off school campuses for almost a year, and it’s imperative to get them back there. But how?

The first theme, Magic Disappearing Children, appears in the TV show “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” an otherwise-feminist saga about a separated and then divorced mother of two children making her way as a comedian in the late 1950s. At first, she and the kids move in with her parents, who have a housekeeper — automatic help at home. By Season 3, there’d been a few references to her ex taking charge, but mostly the kids just magically disappear. Convenient, that.

The third theme is Mom Doesn’t Mind. In “Blackish,” Dre Johnson decides he doesn’t do enough around the house, and we are invited to be amused at the antics and improbability of a man actually trying to do his fair share. But he is inept, alas, and the episode ends with everybody recognizing that really, Mom does it better. “I actually miss doing all the little things,” says his wife. As in, I preferThe fairness gap isn’t “just the way it is.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 140,000 jobs lost in December, but the news was even more grim for women: They lost 156,000 jobs, men gained 16,000. As unemployment increased throughout 2020, women lost a million more jobs than men did.Each year someone is out of work means a sacrifice of more than three times their annual salary in lifetime income, according toby the Center for American Progress.

 

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