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A Crisis Of Care: Effects Of Covid-19 On The Household Division Of Labor, Caroline Elliot Albro
A Crisis Of Care: Effects Of Covid-19 On The Household Division Of Labor, Caroline Elliot Albro
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The COVID-19 pandemic brought monumental challenges to the lives of parents around the world. As schools shut down, children stayed at home, and employees worked from their living room couches or dining room tables, working parents struggled to balance paid labor, household labor, and childcare during this time. Working mothers faced particular challenges in reconciling household labor and employment due to the pressures of gender norms and the expectation for women to “do it all.” This paper explores the strategies that families utilized to deal with the household division of labor during the pandemic. Families employed a variety of strategies …