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My dog bit my daughter, what would you do?
Yes. I’m so discouraged. I don’t even have the energy for my usual rant on this topic 😞
FWIW, in my household my husband left his job to take care of the baby because I was making more money. It’s a personal and financial decision which partner will have to stay at home in the circumstances, and hopefully more than gender is taken into consideration. Even with that, it’s been impossible for me to work at the same level (I.e. constant fire drills and freak outs) with an infant, and I’m considering switching jobs.
This gives me so much hope! Great example of partnership and equality!
I haven’t seen a lot in my industry or social network leave. But it’s a hard time. Hopefully people on this thread decide not to act like a-holes about other women’s choices or lack thereof. Women need to support other women!
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Do you have a link you can share? I’m curious about this. I know it’s happening based on discussions with friends but haven’t seen any real numbers in the news so far. TIA.
The school shutdown also increases inequality between the sexes as women drop out of the workforce at shocking levels. In September there were 865,000 fewer women over 19 in the labor force than in August. By contrast, only 216,000 men over 19 left the workforce over that same period. Much of that, probably most, is due to the lack of in-person schooling. Even for parents who stay in the workforce, not holding school causes many to shift work priorities or decrease total hours worked, as a study from the IZA Institute of Labor Economics showed.
IMO those women wanted to leave the workplace anyway. It's like people who say "all these people are suddenly moving to the suburbs." All the people I know who did that were people who were probably going to ultimately move to the suburbs anyway. A lot of women secretly harbor a desire to get out of the rat race and stay hone with their kids and this is the perfect excuse. I'm a single parent with no partner, and I managed to make it through covid while working. If these women can't do it with a husband/partner, it isn't because it can't be done. It's because they really don't want to do it. I'm not judging them for their choice, but it was their choice.
Oh my god stop. The answer here is not to say that these women wanted to quit their jobs. The answer is to ask ourselves what we can all do to make working motherhood easier for EVERYONE, single moms included.
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The men you’re talking about being “in charge” are our husbands. It’s time to say no if you don’t want to quit. I sure didn’t.
EY1, your advice is great in a perfect world. The truth is that it is not that simple. A woman can’t just throw a temper tantrum and say no and have the problem solved. Parents are having to make decision with deadlines about how they will school their children and make new child care decisions on a dime based on a pandemic. Many families spend months if not years planning our child care strategies, school choices, career decisions, and agreed upon family dynamics and COVID has upended all of that for many families.
There is a reason we are seeing so much divorce as spouses are reckoning with things they brushed under the rug or had just accepted pre-Covid.
If anything men and woman together need to wake up and be proactively supporting the parent who does or will now do the majority of heavy lifting at home because let’s be real - there is always someone who does “more”. Let’s redesign our relationships at home and our workplaces to allow for productivity, happiness, flexibility, and success.
If your a leader at work - your number one thing right now should be supporting the wellness and adjustment of your people and that may be flexing team assignments, helping people access resources, or helping people discern there next stage at work even it that’s not with your team.