Women with school-aged children had higher rates of workforce participation than women of the same age with no kids at home, according to one professor's analysis of Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
The project will measure all the economic activity surrounding the effort to care for other humans — including "institutions like day care, preschools, in-home care, nursing homes, janitorial work, nannies, housework and more," she said in a press release.: Looking back, incomplete data meant that the story told about women in the pandemic wasn't quite right, Heggeness told Axios.
It was difficult to see if this was actually true. Official labor force participation numbers don't track parental status — you can't quickly look up the Bureau of Labor Statistics data on the employment of mothers, as you can for other cohorts. So, Heggeness, who was a principal economist at the Census Bureau during COVID, used her spare time to piece together data from different sources — and she found a different story.rates of workforce participation than women of the same age with no kids at home, according to her analysis of Census and BLS data.
"And we see drops in women's labor force participation overall, we automatically [think] it must be child care."Just this week the Biden administration launched what it's calling a "historic" effort to expand access to child care — at least among federal workers, military families and organizations that receive government funds.What's next:
With her project, Heggeness hopes to centralize data in one easily accessible clearinghouse for policymakers, journalists, nonprofits, etc.Axios on facebook
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