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Ramya V
@Ramya · 1:41

Is Covid-19 also driving a 'Female Recession' globally?

article image placeholderCOVID-19 recession is tougher on women : Monthly Labor Review: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
So even if we were to assume that women would be reentering the job market once the worst of the pandemic is behind, it is in no way going to be easy for them to start off from where they exactly left off. I know this has been the worst year we've all had to endure, but somehow, after reading this article, I feel even in this, you know, global economic downturn, women have been left holding the shorter end of the stick

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2020/beyond-bls/covid-19-recession-is-tougher-on-women.htm

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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 2:06
It goes that way. And for those two weeks, it's predominantly grandparents who step forward to look after the grandkids because parents don't get the six plus two schedule. Parents have to continue working in much of Europe and Asia. Grandparents have been the stronghold of childcare. And that's not the case in the US. And so I wonder if this is a problem that is also kind of unique to coalition structures where grandparents don't form a part of the Childcare network
@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 2:00

@sudha

Hey, Suda, it's a good point. You bring up there about cultural factors playing in and about family dynamics in India and parts of Asia that gives some room for the burden of child care to be shared with the grandparents. While I think it might be true in a lot of cases, I happen to do a bit of research on this, and the numbers that showed up actually says otherwise. So a report by McKenzie looks at this in a slightly different way
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Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:13
And, yeah, it's the same thing with household jobs, household duties, all of that. So it's a good article. But like I said, it's more of a like Sudan said, it's a cultural thing. And I also think it's a gender based role issue also. But Gracewell thanks
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