“Sorry, I can’t do that meeting this afternoon.”
Women represent more thanwho lost their jobs between February and April, and less than half of those who made job gains in May. Single parents have experienced the greatest loss of employment and hours, and most of them are women. Many women lucky enough to still have jobs are nonetheless contemplatingfinding the demands of work and parenting at once exhausting and perhaps impossible.
Dads don’t just need to do their share of the laundry. Dads need to be out in the world demanding support for working parents with the same fervour that their partners are. It becomes easy for a woman’s career to be considered disposable once she has children. Her job is more flexible—she worked irregular hours already to accommodate the daycare schedule, after all. And when a crisis arrives in the form of our global emergency, it seems obvious that this flexibility should continue…until thousands of women have flexed their way right out of the workforce, away from the careers in which they’ve invested decades.Change is possible.
That heterosexual men tend to earn higher incomes than their female partners is the usual excuse for why they’re less invested in the current challenges of family life—but it’s really not a good one. In fact, men’s still-higher incomes makes the need for their demands all the more powerful. Imagine the business of Bay Street brought to a halt by the workers with the most agency and clout.
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