'Structural sexism is always lurking just below the surface, ready to rear its ugly head and quickly upset any semblance of intra-household gender equity.' MothersDay By dreaflynn:
of low-income fathers take zero weeks of paid time away after welcoming a new child into their home).
“Three weeks ago, most of us—proud feminists and progressives—would have said we shared the burden of parenting relatively evenly,” writes Flynn. “Why then, at times of crisis, do these imbalances emerge?” This is particularly true when a historic crisis threatens the stability of the higher earner’s job or industry—as COVID is doing to so many jobs and industries today.
This imbalance that’s playing out in our homes—and the extraordinary toll that a crisis like COVID is taking on all working parents—significantly impacts how we show up at work and how we perform relative to those who have fewer or no childcare responsibilities. Rage that women need to hold so much more than our hearts and brains and arms have room for. And that the whole system feels more broken than it ever has.
The people who literally hold up our economy—on their backs, with their care-taking hands, and on trays held on their shoulders, like my mom—are those who will be most quickly left behind and will pay the price of our government’s negligence for the rest of their lives.
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