Published:
October 16, 2020
A new report on the COVID-19 crisis by the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin and YWCA USA points to what most women know: this pandemic impacts working moms more than anyone else. The report called “America’s Recovery from the 2020 ‘Shecession’: Building a Female Future of Childcare and Work” details how the coronavirus pandemic is erasing half a century of women’s gains in the workforce. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, one of the researchers on this project, talks to the Standard.