The pandemic may set maternal labor force participation back decades.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Forcing Millennial Mothers Out of the Workforce By Rasheed Malik and Taryn Morrissey The coronavirus pandemic is stretching Millennial parents to the breaking point and may set maternal labor force participation back decades. A new Center for American Progress analysis finds that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Millennial mothers are nearly three times more likely than Millennial fathers to report being unable to work due to a school or child care closure. Decades of federal inaction has placed the burden on families to finance a child care system, resulting in greater gender, economic, and racial inequities. Unfortunately, as a result, Americans have internalized the notion that child care is a personal problem—or even a personal failure on the part of working mothers. In truth, the lack of affordable child care is a structural problem that policymakers have ignored for far too long. Their choices may now push millions of working mothers into unemployment as the child care system faces a pandemic-induced existential threat. Read more » FOLLOW US ON: Support CAP | Manage Email Preferences | Privacy Policy | Unsubscribe Center for American Progress | 1333 H Street NW, 10th Floor | Washington, D.C. xxxxxx

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