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Changing Child Care
Despite efforts to make domestic work more egalitarian in the household, women continue to bear the burden of providing care for children. Some researchers attribute declining maternal workforce participation to rising child care costs. On the labor side, more than 90 percent of child care workers are women.
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Middle-income and rural families disproportionately grapple with child-care deserts, new analysis shows
The first-of-its-kind nationwide portrait shows that, on average, middle-income areas are most likely to be in child-care deserts, along with areas with heavily Latino populations.
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The pandemic upended child care. It could be devastating for women.
As states reopen their economies, some have yet to issue a specific plan for child-care facilities. Industry groups predict that a third to half of child-care centers may not reopen at all.