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A new study from Gender & Society found that, in states where schools doubled down on remote learning, the difference in labor force participation between mothers and fathers grew significantly, exacerbating the preexisting gap. Washington University sociologist Caitlyn Collins discusses the study on St. Louis on the Air.
School and day care center restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic have presented enormous challenges to parents trying to juggle work with child-care responsibilities. Still, empirical evidence on the impact of pandemic-related child-care constraints on the labor market outcomes of working parents is somewhat mixed. Some studies suggest the pandemic had no additional impact on the labor supply of parents, while other studies show not only that it did but that the negative impact was disproportionately borne by working mothers.[ 1]
The largest impact has been on Black, single, and non-college-educated mothers, mirroring widening employment disparities in the broader labor market since March.