Opinion | Jennifer Gerson: 'By sending hairdressers, nail salon technicians, tattoo parlor workers, restaurant staffers...back to work, Kemp is sending a lot of mothers back to work, forcing them to make unfathomable choices at a dangerous time'
For those who were briefly able to qualify for unemployment when these kinds of businesses temporarily shuttered, that access to reliable, stable income to support their families will no longer be in play after Friday or Monday. That means they either have to accept unemployment sans benefits, if they want to have to remain home with their children , or return to providing often hands-on personal services at great personal risk.
And, when we think about what businesses will be reopening across Georgia on the governor's say-so, it’s fair to say that a significant proportion of those workers — who will now be forced to choose between their safety and and keeping food on the table for their family — will be women, and they will be mothers, and they will be Black or Latinx mothers.
Not to mention that while Kemp has opted to ensure that people in our state can exercise their right to bowl, be tattooed, get massaged and be infected with/infected others with the coronavirus as much as they wish during an unprecedented pandemic, he has not reopened our state’s schools, which remain.
So the women who must decide whether to keep themselves and their children physically safe or economically stable are also likely to find it necessary to leave school-age children at home by themselves should they wish to keep earning — or with other people, thereby further exposing their families to potential infection by breaking social distancing even more.
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