Caring Under COVID-19: How the Pandemic Is - and Is Not - Changing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Responsibilities in the United States
Dec 31, 2020 | by Brian Heilman (Promundo-US), María Rosario Castro Bernardini & Kimberly Pfeifer (Oxfam America)
Caring Under COVID-19: How the Pandemic Is – and Is Not – Changing Unpaid Care and Domestic Work Responsibilities in the United States, a new report by Promundo and Oxfam as part of MenCare: A Global Fatherhood Campaign, reveals findings from a rapid poll exploring the gendered and racial impacts of COVID-19 on care work.
This report provides six new insights on the unfolding crisis of care, along with PL+US highlighting the need for paid leave, policy changes that are intersectional and that account for and remedy existing inequalities, and better inclusion in decision-making of those individuals with a clear view of inequalities. This report is the first in a series of similar polls in the #HowICare Project which will be published by Oxfam International in four other countries: UK, Canada, Philippines, and Kenya.