'Childcare is the backbone to the American economy and lack of childcare is the biggest barrier for women to be fully employed. Without safe, affordable, high quality childcare, the rest of America doesn't work.'
Kenya Bradshaw, vice president of an education company with 500 employees, said she started seeing an overwhelming number of female employees using up vacation days early on in the pandemic, and is now seeing them leave their jobs because of childcare issues.
"I'm concerned about the burden of low to moderate wage employees who don't even have the flexibility to make that decision," added Bradshaw, who received thousands of replies when she posted about the topic on social media. "If the school is the only institution that is keeping us from breaking as a country, then we have a problem and we need to fix that," she said."This is not an individual household problem and we as a country need to think about this."For the economy to come back even stronger after the pandemic, the needs of working moms when it comes to childcare cannot be ignored, experts say.
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