Despite efforts to make domestic work more egalitarian in the household, women continue to bear the burden of providing care for children. Some researchers attribute declining maternal workforce participation to rising child care costs. On the labor side, more than 90 percent of child care workers are women.
For National Caregivers Day, Rep. Katie Porter outlines the legislative solutions that could ease the burden on working parents.
Single mothers have scrambled during the pandemic to secure child care. What will the federal government do to help in 2021?
The burden is most acute for teachers who are mothers, and steering both their students and their own children through online learning.
The $900 billion package tackles paid leave, child care and food insecurity, among other issues.
School closures and the struggling economy have created a national hunger crisis — and experts say it will only get worse as the pandemic deepens this winter.
“I’m a teacher. That’s who I am,” Biden said.
The proposals come at a time when women have shouldered the bulk of child care and family care needs during the coronavirus pandemic.
The issue has been largely absent from the debates and campaign rallies at a time when parents seem to care about it most. But as with so many topics, the pandemic has made it political.
Anne Helen Petersen’s new book "Can’t Even" interrogates the lies millennials were told about having it all.
New guidelines from the Department of Labor on the Families First Coronavirus Response Act say parents whose children have access to in-person learning are no longer eligible for paid leave.