The Atlantic
Listen: ‘A Disaster for Feminism’
Why have the economic and psychological stresses of the pandemic hit women harder and what can we do about it?
February 19, 2021
Nearly a year ago,
Atlantic staff writer Helen Lewis predicted that the pandemic would be “a disaster for feminism,” and far too many of her predictions have proved true. With women leaving the workforce at unprecedented rates, why has the pandemic’s burden fallen so much harder on them? And what can we, as a society, do about it?
Lewis joins staff writer James Hamblin and comedian Maeve Higgins on the podcast