Add Your Name: Accessible, affordable child care for all.

 

DAVID - Mothers are the backbone holding our communities together and yet they have unreasonably borne the brunt of the pandemic’s impacts day after day. And so, after a year of incredible endurance, mothers around the world are at a breaking point. Mothers, caregivers, and child care workers need our support. They need a government that understands that care work—both paid and unpaid—is just as important to the country’s infrastructure as bridges and roads. Throughout the pandemic, women have been more likely than men to drop out of the workforce or reduce their hours, largely due to care responsibilities. On average, women do three times as much unpaid care work as men and make up the majority of the world’s underpaid care workers. The truth is that moms everywhere have bailed out governments and businesses through their unpaid labor caring for children and other family members during this crisis at the expense of their own wealth, health, and wellbeing. Those employers who don’t offer paid sick or family leave have left so many of us in an impossible position of deciding whether to care for our children or keep our jobs. We can’t have an inclusive and robust economic recovery without an affordable and accessible child care industry and a society that recognizes the critical value of unpaid care work. Join us in calling on Congress to ensure affordable child care is accessible to all >>> If the last year taught us anything, it is that governments and employers see women’s work as dispensable and women’s unpaid labor as a given. Governments and businesses have failed our mothers and caretakers with woefully inadequate policies and protections that have set women’s progress back by decades and will ultimately cost us all with a slower path to recovery. Mothers deserve better. Moms have been supporting our communities, economies, and governments for so long. It’s past time for these systems to support them too. Our mothers deserve this—today and every day.

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