CENTERPIECE: News and Views on Child Care

Summer 2020

The Ultimate Test of Work + Family:

A Year Without Child Care

Jennifer Sabatini Fraone, Director of Corporate Partnerships

Women have long considered the question “Can I have both a career and a family?”. It is this question that drew me to the work of the BC Center for Work & Family 15 years ago as a young mom and MBA student. The pandemic is only exacerbating the issues and making the question a constant refrain in the lives of working mothers.

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Spotlight on Child Care

Our COVID-19 Resources site features a new summary of articles and resources on New Challenges in Child Care. You can also view the recording of our recent virtual event on Child Care featuring Bright Horizons CEO Stephen Kramer. Roundtable Members also have access to a recent Custom Benchmarking Summary on Summer Child Care and a Custom Research Summary on The Importance of Child Care via the Member-only website. If you have questions about membership options or website access, please email [email protected].

What we're reading...on Child Care

The Importance of Childcare in Reopening the Economy Econofact

Childcare is a critical piece of our economic infrastructure that enables parents to “get to work” just like roads and bridges do for commuters.

Pandemic childcare closures could be terrible for women's careers Business Insider

If childcare centers close, millions of women are likely to take up more unpaid labor in parenting or may even drop out of the labor force to raise their children, labor economists said.

Advocating for Children During the COVID-19 School Closures Pediatrics

Nationwide closures of elementary and secondary schools due to COVID- 19 have severed nearly 60 million students from critical educational and health resources.

Working parents face a child-care crisis. Here’s how L.A. employers are handling it LA Times

Six months into the pandemic, employer child care services and supports have shifted from being viewed as a perk to being a critical need.

The coronavirus pandemic probably won’t launch a stay-at-home dad revolution CNBC

It’s undisputed that stay-at-home moms vastly outnumber stay-at-home dads in the U.S. and the pandemic probably won’t change that. There are a number of reasons why parents decide to stay home with their kids, and the pandemic hasn’t really impacted those motivators, BCCWF Executive Director Brad Harrington says.

As the coronavirus hits women workers, a recession becomes the ‘Shecession’ Boston Herald

One of the biggest impacts of this pandemic is the loss of jobs, the loss of income, which has been disproportionately affecting women. Quotes BCCWF's Jennifer Fraone

Coronavirus Is Killing the Working Mother Rolling Stone

It was hard enough to “have it all” before — but the pandemic could force out a generation of moms out of the workforce.

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