Being quarantined led to a devastating hit on U.S. marriages. By June 2020—just three months into the pandemic—there had been a 34 percent increase in couples contemplating divorce compared to 2019. While financial stressors and health worries contribute to the breakdown of partnerships, in many heterosexual partnerships, it is the massive disparity in who does household labor, including childcare, that matters most.
” that exists within families. Many of us are saying to ourselves, “This isn’t how it was supposed to be.”
The pandemic revealed the “grotesque inequality” that exists within families. Many of us are saying to ourselves, “This isn’t how it was supposed to be.” Of course, many couples thrived in quarantine. And certainly, some men do an equal share of the household labor. I know a few. But they are rare exceptions, who we praise as if they are not simply doing what is just.. Certainly, the mental health and employment effects will last longer than the containment of the disease. Women are bearing the lion’s share of these costs, along with the wider social ones imposed by the pandemic and will continue to do so.
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