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As flu season kicks in, many parents will get that dreaded call asking them to pick up a sick child from school. But new research suggests something many might long have suspected: schools often default to calling the mother, even when both parents expressed a desire to share the responsibility equally.As flu season kicks in, many parents will get that dreaded call asking them to pick up a sick child from school or daycare.
Part of the story here is how the study was done, because you have a few different takes at this. Tell me what you did. Now that in itself could have been an answer, but you wanted to complicate things a little bit more. So you did variations on the study, right? But we also see that there's a big chunk left over that may have to do with other aspects, maybe of social norms — that it's just, kind of, the mother's job to do this. Or there would be something weird about calling a dad when you're used to calling moms. Or maybe moms are easier to talk to. You know, we can't get super fine detail there, but this is coming from multiple areas. It's not one very simple story.
Some of this, we hypothesize, comes down to the extra burden on the mothers of taking care of children. We also see some evidence that women who anticipate having children may select into more flexible jobs in the first place, which are on average lower-paying. So we're kind of losing out on some of the best productivity of women because they have to make plans, because they're punished in the workplace for dealing with this extra burden.
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