Pandemics, Privatization, and Public Education
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Description
Much has been made of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on women and families; in particular, on professional women who left the workplace in droves to assume caregiving burdens in the pandemic's wake. But the discussion of this “she-cession” often omitted one key player: the state. This chapter surfaces how the pandemic also laid bare the state's historically anemic support for caregiving, highlighting how the state's primary caregiving subsidy has come in a surprising form: the provision of public education. And when even this meager contribution dwindled during the pandemic, families were unsurprisingly tasked with privately taking up the slack.
Source Publication
The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19
Source Editors/Authors
Linda C. McClain, Aziza Ahmed
Publication Date
2024
Recommended Citation
Murray, Melissa and Millat, Caitlin, "Pandemics, Privatization, and Public Education" (2024). Faculty Chapters. 2054.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/2054
