Recently, Lauren told us about how the Covid pandemic is having a disproportionate impact on women. Women make up the largest percentage of the teaching workforce and, while many teachers have been able to keep their jobs this year, it is clear that the pandemic has presented myriad challenges for teachers both at work and at home. Remote learning and hybrid learning require a great amount of planning, as teachers adapt their current curricula or design new curricula based on the needs of their students. As an administrator or supervisor, you might be asking yourself what you can do to support your teachers during this tough year.
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Research shows that many female professors spend less time on their professional responsibilities and more time on care responsibilities, homeschooling, and housekeeping. Their male colleagues and partners have not experienced the same losses. What does this mean for the future of women’s work?
Read MoreSince March of last year—and nearly the very start of mask-wearing and stay-at-home orders—we’ve seen stories about the ways that women have paid a heavy toll throughout the pandemic. Many women work in the industries hardest hit by COVID-19, which include education, retail, and hospitality. In many of these jobs, employees do not have benefits like sick time or parental leave, and they may not be able to work from home. In those cases, many women have either been forced out of their jobs as businesses closed or downsized severely, or they have exited the workforce after making difficult choices about how to balance work and care responsibilities.
Read MoreIf you are interested in doing document analysis, policy analysis, or professional development around gender disparity in your school, please reach out to us. We are looking forward to working with you in 2021!
Read MoreWe return this month with our series that recaps our favorite (or least favorite) moments in gender equity from news, media, and long reads all over the internet. You’ll see installments for This Month in Gender Equity one week each month. If you have ideas or contributions, leave a comment or tweet at us!
Read MoreIf you are like me, you are trying to avoid a lot of the news around COVID-19 and the pandemic. This blog post, written on the heels of me learning that my state’s schools are closed for the rest of the academic year, deals not with the disease itself or the current state of affairs, but rather asks the question, “So, now what?”
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