Since its inception, the U.S. has treated caregiving as an innate, natural behavior that women need to express and ignored how depleting, disruptive and difficult the work is.
A vigil in front of the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 6, 2021, urged Congress to fully fund home and community based care services in President Biden’s Build Back Better budget package.
March is Women’s History Month, a time when we honor “sheroes,” those who have dedicated their lives to gender equality. There’s a group of women whose labor, though unrecognized, is invaluable and on which so much of our lives depend. These women work tirelessly—often in the service of the same women who’ll be valorized this month—and receive little recognition, let alone adequate pay for their services. These women are our caregivers.
The workforce lost millions of caregivers in The Great Resignation, when working women were forced to choose between their jobs and their caregiving responsibilities during the height of the pandemic. What resulted was a mass exodus of women from the workforce, who had no caregiving options with schools and daycares closed.
Caregiving, which can mean caring for children, seniors, people with disabilities and so much more, is often considered women’s work. Because of that, those in caregiving fields, from preschool instructors to nursing home employees, are underpaid, undervalued, and overlooked. The average hourly wage for a caregiver is
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