Caitlyn Collins

TL;DR: It is found that mothers with young children have reduced their work hours four to five times more than fathers, indicating yet another negative consequence of the COVID‐19 pandemic, highlighting the challenges it poses to women's work hours and employment.

TL;DR: Among heterosexual married couples of which both partners work in telecommuting-capable occupations, mothers have scaled back their work hours to a far greater extent than fathers, suggesting that the COVID-19 crisis is already worsening existing gender inequality, with long-term implications for women’s employment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how surrogacy persists and thrives despite its common portrayal as the "rent-a-womb industry" and "baby factory" and found that market actors justify their pursuits through narrating moral frames of compassion and altruism that are not incidental but systematic to and constitutive of transnational surrogacy.

TL;DR: The COVID-19 pandemic has upended in-person public education across the United States, a critical infrastructure of care that parents depend on to work as mentioned in this paper, and it has been called the "critical infrastructure" of care for mothers.