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Reply to "NYT: In the Covid-19 Economy, You Can Have a Kid or a Job. You Can’t Have Both."
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, from the perspective of this Gen X working mother, this crisis is just more of the same, except that the problems that have existed for decades are magnified. The expectations placed on women to support the education of their children and do their jobs are unrealistic. Sure, school is not daycare. But a regular school calendar is beneficial to working parents in terms of finding care and taking days off. Random work days, snow days, and half days are not. The many school closures create inequities for parents whose work does not permit flexibility or who lack the means to outsource quality care (or who don't have extended family support). [/quote] Preach, my fellow GenX sister! Though, if I hear "school is not daycare" one more time, my head is going to explode. It manages both to denigrate people who work at daycares AND shame working mothers in one fell swoop. Elegant, but horrible.[/quote]
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