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Research shows investing in programs such as Head Start can help families exit poverty and speed economic growth, according to Washington University sociologist Caitlyn Collins.
Kelly McCormick quit her job as a social worker in August 2020 to help her children with their virtual schooling. And like many parents, she thought school reopenings this year would free her to get back to her career. But that prospect has been delayed again and again as waves of variants have sent children home after classroom exposures or illnesses.
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Pandemic Pushed Many Moms Out of the Workforce
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting upheaval in public education has undermined decades of feminist gains in the united states workforce, research finds.
The research, forthcoming in
Gender & Society, draws on new data from the Elementary School Operating Status (ESOS) database to show that the gender gap between mothers and fathers in the labor force has grown significantly since the onset of the pandemic in states where schools primarily offered remote instruction.