But the uncomfortable truth is that in their homes, women are still fitting into stereotypical roles of doing
of cooking, cleaning and parenting. It's another form of systemic inequality within a 21st century home that the pandemic is laying bare.Already, their parents are getting sick and dying. Their kids are falling behind. So along with doing everything else, working becomes impossible. "The problem is that right now a lot of women don't really have choices, right?" says Martha Gimbel, a labor economist at the nonprofit initiative Schmidt Futures."They can't send their kids to school. Someone has to supervise the learning. Someone has to deal with the cooking. Someone has to deal with the cleaning, and it's falling onto them. And so they can't make choices that they want to make because they're being restricted in all these ways.
last week. Brainard says if women continue to remain out of employment, it risks"harming not only the prospects of these individuals, but also the economy's potential growth rate."is playing a big role — women make 82 cents for every dollar a man earns. So when couples have to take an economic decision, because women typically earn less, they are the ones who take the step back.This"mom penalty" is even higher for women who are better educated and have higher incomes.
We need women's liberation , now more than ever...
I guess we best open the economy
Yeah, shutting down the economy affects everyone.
Lockdowns hurt people
Women are not 'stuck at home'. What a great benefit to families, to the children who will have mom at home to be there for them as they are not allowed to be in school. They can provide the emotional support and love that they need.
This image fills me with a visceral sense of both sympathy and rage.
I’m on the verge of a mental breakdown. Work plus a now one year old has been the hardest task I’ve ever had to endure. No outside help because Covid 😷 makes it that much harder. I don’t know if I can keep working... and I have a fantastic job that I’ve worked YEARS to get.
But it’s aligned with the Trump regime. Hold women back and take away their rights. Let’s all go back to the 1950’s!
It couldn't at all, be possible, that maybe, some people have decided to stay home and Trump didn't run house to house and lock them in their homes. Get a grip.
Sorry, not all of them are that upset about it. I can name names!
Shouldn't this say, 'The percentage of working-age women in the workforce....'? Because I can't see how a ratio without a consequent term, and expressed as a percentage means anything.
Why
But isn’t that the maga way?
Yeah no shit. And just wait to see what the effect of having 75% of the healthcare workforce facing the decision whether to leave the workforce because they won’t open the damn schools. This is insanity!
I am sure LindseyGrahamSC is pleased
Just gave up my job to stay at home with son. Joining the numbers.
This is what America looks like with no daycare. The women stay home and wages drop. With the elder generation dead and social security ending under trump, lots of change. Vote Biden for normal life back. Better together!
Sitting on your ass at home is the same as sitting on your ass at an office.
What many Trump supporters aren't publicly honest about is how much they believe whites are superior and should retain privilage. White nationalists & extremist groups may be scary but they are more honest than most about this. And Trump welcomes and encourages it.
Go work in a factory, mom.
Mom stuck at home raising the kids. The horror.
A lot of parents have admitted to having stronger bonding and better family time since the pandemic.
It’s almost as if when you allow the government to unconstitutionally shut down everyone’s business jobs go away for all 58 genders.
If woman are really leaving the workforce will we need to up our immigration intake so the jobs get done? Who will do the work?
Just common sense, the one with less earning potential stays home when daycare stops. It will go away, soon, very soon, rounding the curve according to someone
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I hardly consider myself 'stuck' at home. What an anti-feminist way to view women whose work is their families' wellbeing and success.
What a missed opportunity to tell me about how dads' scores are doing in Madden.
Don't think Trump is going to be fox that anytime soon, did he at a ralley tha he is gouing to put all your husbands back to work. What year is this suppose to be.
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Capitalism uses women like cattle.
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Remember, it all happened under the Trump administration. A huge step backwards (over a three decades low). Mismanagement of Covid-19 in the US has done a lot of collateral damage.
Right wingers must love this, especially that one they just installed on the Supreme Court who believes wives must follow their husband's wishes.
Nothing new! Women are underrated. We need more and guess what we do more. We have many tasks and we are not recognized for it. It’s a sham what’s been happening to women for centuries!!!
Fake
Totally not true . You can't use the covid when you are actively manipulating the return to school and work.
Well Yeah... More Moms are staying home because their kids are in virtual learning and need their supervision. Blame liberal Dem Teachers unions.
What should the percentage be?
Because that only thing that has maintained US standard of living was dual income homes going from 25% of the population to 60%. Buckle up kids, because Capitalism is collapsing.
JonathanLanday A worried economist? That's the best kind
Women are going to be working from home for years again. The whole workforce is going to shift in general. The pandemic is changing our way of life, like it or not.
But... They have a place in America according to Graham what's-his-name...
2nd term goals, “But so I think, I think it would be, I think it would be very, very, I think we'd have a very, very solid, we would continue what we're doing, we'd solidify what we've done, and we have other things on our plate that we want to get done,'
6am to 9pm....then lunches made & chores until past midnight. Only sitting because I’m feeding the baby 😂😭
I am more than an economic value & my career does NOT define who I am. If your family unit isn't handing this as a team, the household problems existed way before the pandemic hit. Maybe the media should stop spinning parents at home as a Negative.
BS
AshleyJudd SO GET MAD & GO VOTE THE WORTHLESS OCCUPANT OF THE PEOPLES’ HOUSE & ALL THE SPINELESS GOP OUT OF OFFICE! VoteThemOut
How busy a mother was in the picture!
Thier blessed to get to be home with there kids.most are single parents & have no choice but to work.therefor more children are neglected,unsupervised.
Ha! Nice graphic.
Pretty sure that I’ve been the telecommuter while my wife goes to her workplace! I’m doing the heavy lifting.
Women who work in healthcare are taking a huge hit here. They cannot work in healthcare and educate their children. You will lose a big workforce...during a pandemic with these measures that do no decrease spread significantly and cause roll backs of closing gaps in equity
I have already turned down two promotions during the pandemic because I am teaching my son 1st grade and working full time. Anyone, mom or dad, doing this right now is a superhero.
This was supposed to be my year to re-enter the work force. What lousy timing.
Man. You advocate for shutdowns, then bitch that women are stuck at home. WTF do you expect?
You forgot one, someone has to make money and actually work in order to get paid
Hilarious, the woman is carrying the man.
AshleyJudd So so so true
Seriously? Where are the real men of these so called generation X, Y & Z’s? They can take point on many of these tasks, if they’re really committed to family. However, these women should be serious about working and contributing and not just saying this to support mere nonsense.
The immediate impacts are bad enough, but the long term impact on their careers is really dismaying. Related:
Define woman
✋ and taking care of a pet, keeping up with everyone’s whatever appointments, checking with elderly parents, AND working at home. But aren’t we always doing all that anyway?
Small business owner and stay at home dad. Wife is a healthcare worker who is more stressed our then ever. She would love to stay home with the kids but we get health insurance through her. When we get Medicare for all she stays home and I get to grow the business
Am I the only one that is sick and tired of this worn out old crap?
*liberal rainbow resister-sister women
Trump’s going to get our husbands back to work though, so s’all cool.
Terrible. It is not the woman's job to supervise children or facilitate learning. What the focus should be is that women's gains in terms of job numbers have shown to be expendable. And that this shortcoming will take decades to repair.
Even Newsweek is reporting this story guys. NPR's refusal to report this amounts to election interference.
Frances_Coppola And they not married. So government needs to be their dad. Right NPR?
Years ago I CHOSE to stay home with my children: to homeschool them, to take care of my family. I CHOSE this of my own free will and wouldn’t have traded it for anything.
Lol 😂
I fucking do it all. But I was always doing it all so…
'Out of all COVID-19 deaths, 57% have been men... women most affected.' - NPR
Why is this so fearful for women? Why can’t it be this simple? Why can’t mothers take care of children at home? Why is that so wrong and degrading? Exactly what did you expect when YOU MADE the choice to get married, to have a job, to have children, to have a house, etc?
Sounds like they are getting to enjoy quality time with their children instead of slaving away w the kids in daycare.
Democrat run cities are awful
The only time I don't see a mixed race family and dad is riding on her back...lol.
Most women don’t need husbands. They need wives.
Funny how it takes two to make a child
Wait til you find out there are single dads. 🤯
I just returned from my brother's house. Kids: 10 and 6 yrs old. My sister-in-law is drained and overwhelmed by school s virtual classes. God bless all mothers... and women in general. era
Women have always been the real head of the family.
Do these statistics show that women do more non-essential jobs than men then?
Shameful that you hacks didn't write about the TonyBobulinski story.
Speak for yourself!
Narrator: The cooking of meals and teaching of children falls by nature to the fairer sex, who are more suited for domestic chores than work outside the home.
Boo fucking Hoo
No they haven't. Be quiet. Women are 100% equal in the USA. Enough already.
OPEN UP THIS COUNTRY!
End feminism now.
THIS IS ONLY TEMORARY. BIASED NPR MAKES IT SOUND PERMENATNT. NPR AND THE SOCIALIST MEDIA ARE GOING OUT OF THEIR MIND TRYING TO DISCREDIT TRUMP. IT WILL NOT WORK HEEE HEEE HEEE.
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My career already took a hit having a child in 2018. I had almost recovered when Covid hit. I had to close my shop and won't be able to rebuild until the pandemic is under control. All in all my earnings have been derailed by a minimum of 5 years by the time I get back on my feet
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Narrative correction: this happened because of stupid lockdowns and teacher unions resisting school opening
I resent our politically motivated politicians every single day for their blatant politicizing of this issue with punitive policies to rig an election outcome. It's abhorrent and one of the main reasons I voted for Trump. The media needs a reckoning, and NPR is no exception.
If the schools would re-open, women would be able to hold a job and keep this country humming.
....and Trump was rambling about 'getting husband's back to work' 🙄
My g/f is one of them. This is going to have a lasting effect on the economy.
Is that her husband on her back in that picture 😳
MorningEdition Don't worry, donny says our husbands can finally work again 🙄
Men die from COVID at twice the rate of women, women hardest hit by pandemic.
Isn’t that what the GOP wants, to take away our rights.
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another unintended consequence from the Dem governors and their nonsense lockdowns. You try to hurt the Republicans and yet again it backfires. Clowns
did they lose their job or were they the ones that took on the responsibility of the children in lieu of going back to work? Stop acting like there is some actions being taken by companies to hold down women
Misleading headline. This article is about the wellness of the economy, not the wellness of the women affected by the pandemic. An economy built entirely on the backs of women is not sustainable, pandemic or no pandemic.
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The system is broken. Badly.
Good!
Stop blaming & shaming women for being women. Women have been putting family responsibilities ahead of careers.Thats not weakness,suppression,or victimhood. Its just the way we are.Biological differences that lead to different societal roles The modern'feminist'mvmnt is so nasty
Trump and his cronies want us in the 1940s, if not earlier. It's embarrassing and enraging
Bill Burr was right. White women and the feminist's group just bunch whining s.o.b. The world doesn't revolve around you.
And men have disproportionately lost their lives since the pandemic began, so don't worry, there will be job openings for women.
Don't worry we're sure a nationwide lockdown will fix this
I think this is further highlighting the wage gap between women and men. If one parent needs to quit their job, to take care of children, it will be the parent who makes less money.
Biden lockdown coming?
As a single mother, who upon occasion was unemployed and was always underemployed, I'm not sure how I would have navigated this situation. My brothers would not have let me and my kids be homeless, but how would I have supported my 3 kids (now adults)?
It’s pandemic , do you get it?
More wonderful fallout from the lockdown.
Society doesn't put a high premium on wives/mothers staying home and cultivating the next generation of men and women. Therefore, we now have the term 'stuck-at-home.'
Probably because women tend to choose jobs that have been locked down, like teaching, while men tend towards more 'essential' jobs, like construction.
Let's be clear: we weren't at parity before 2020 so this is even worse news than at first glance.
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We interviewed Mike Pence about this and he kept asking if he could take off his pants.
This country makes it very hard for women to have families. First, child care is expensive yet the government makes it harder for women to have access to birth control or abortion. You can’t have it both ways. What the hell does America want from women?
It’s almost like providing zero affordable childcare and upholding a toxic system where masculine people aren’t encouraged to share the work/parenting load disproportionately affects women! Who knew?
Wow. So happy so many men are commenting on this and explaining why it’s not a big deal. 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
Is it surprising. The Trump seed of misogyny has sprouted. Tear out that sprouted weed and VOTE BIDEN!🌊
DrJesseMorse We need more data around this topic. The raw numbers illustrate that more women lost their jobs, but we need to know what types of jobs those women were working before the pandemic if we want to take any action about it. Data is king/queen/Lit
It’s because in America women are not focused on children just career and work in general. Nanny’s raising kids. So if they are “forced” to stay home it’s so overwhelming I guess. Don’t have kids then
You liberals crack me up. You irrationally continue to gaslight COV (after the 2+ Million death projection) daily, support unconstituational shutdowns, never considering the consequences then report on all the consequences...next up, 'despair deaths' are far outpacing COV only.
Moms home with their kids. Corporate America, hardest hit.
Men dead. ___ □ /
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Probably reflects the lack of open restaurants. Waitresses and waiters have been hard hit
Dem0ncrat mayors and governors shut down what THEY determined to be non-essential jobs. This suggests women are not doing their fair share of essential work.
Maybe your local governance should reopen the schools....
Does anyone ever refer to single women with either no children or estranged kids, all alone thru this? It’s pretty trying!
I think this next generation of women will not be so quick to wed and settle down, women realize their being sold short . It’s so unfair .
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