The Covid “She-cession”

<p>We had so much to say last week about the culture war Republicans are launching against Joe Biden’s American Family Plan (and specifically how they relate to what we call the ongoing War on Women) that we are back for Round 2. </p> <p><span style= "font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;"> Nearly 3 million women <a href= "https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-crisis-3-million-women-labor-force/"> left</a> the workforce in 2020, and only <a href= "https://www.wsj.com/articles/nearly-1-5-million-mothers-are-still-missing-from-the-workforce-11619472229"> 1.5 million had returned</a> by late April of this year. Schools closed, which forced children home and increased burdens on women again to look after them. But that's just one part of the picture. </span></p> <p> </p>