“I just had sad days where I just felt like everything was falling apart,” she said.
A study from the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. finds that, far from creating more balance in the home, the pandemic caused an increase in working moms’ housework and caregiving responsibilities. According to the report, moms were more than three times as likely as fathers to take on most of the domestic labor during the pandemic, and were 1.5 times more likely than working dads to spend an additional three hours or more on housework and child care each day.
“What we found was mothers are now doing a double-double shift,” said Alexis Krivkovich, a senior partner at McKinsey
Roadmap for easing lockdown. Picture: Boris Johnson In England, the next set of restrictions is due to ease on Monday, April 12. Non-essential retail and outdoor hospitality reopen for the first time in months - and the stay local message will end, meaning some domestic holidays will be possible. Pubs and restaurants will be allowed to serve food and alcohol outdoors. Unlike restrictions in December last year, there will be no need for customers to order a substantial meal with alcoholic drinks and no curfew. Personal care premises such as hairdressers and beauty salons will be able to open. Indoor leisure facilities such as gyms will also reopen; as will most outdoor attractions and settings including outdoor hospitality venues, zoos, theme parks, and drive-in cinemas.
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