“Our economy is built on the back of women's caregiving,” says Melinda Gates as she discusses how the pandemic has hastened the urgency of creating more equitable caregiving systems.
, Melinda argues that in order to reopen the country and rebuild the economy, we will need much more than testing and contact tracing. To keep sick Americans home and get healthy Americans back to work, we will need a radical new approach to caregiving. In her op-ed, Melinda lays out solutions that policymakers, business leaders, and investors can act on so America’s broken caregiving system doesn’t hinder our recovery and leave vulnerable communities behind.
So parents taking care of young kids, parents bringing their elderly parents to their home or trying to take care of them from afar, domestic violence on the rise in the home. And at the same time, people are trying to work. We're trying to keep this economy going, so we have to look at these societal effects and impacts because they're real and they're there. And for one of the first times, some of them are actually visible to us.
After World War II amazing institutions were built. NATO was built, the World Health Organization, the United Nations. We had nurseries for women's children during World War II because women were working in droves; men were off at war. But we didn't keep those nurseries up, and so women went back home. Whereas if you look at the Nordic countries, they actually not only kept that childcare in place, theyit. So it meant women could work and could have really great childcare options.
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