Child Care

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/16/2021
  

  Will Biden Reverse 50 Years of Failure on Child Care Policy?

  by Anna K. Danziger Halperin

  Achieving better childcare policy requires recognizing women may be both mothers and workers, and moving past ideological views that women's economic independence is against the interest of families. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  5/12/2021
  

  The US Funded Universal Childcare During World War II—Then Stopped

  Historian Sonya Michel describes the temporary provision of child day care during World War II as a boost to essential war industry that did not survive the end of mobilization. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/3/2021
  

  A New Deal, This Time for Everyone

  The New Deal emphasized that American democracy must be healthy for its economy to enjoy legitimacy, and vice versa. It's time, says NYT editor Binyamin Appelbaum, to extend that commitment to the economic participation of women. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/4/2020
  

  A Forgotten Campaign To Support ‘Displaced Homemakers’ May Help Women Today

  by Suzanne Kahn

  A 1970s initiative by feminist Tish Sommers for legislation to help women who had worked at home as caregivers to more easily reenter the paid workforce. Her preferred term "displaced homemaker" emphasized the economic importance of domestic care work most often performed by women and women's vulnerability to economic disruption and provides a useful way to think about solutions to the problems caused by COVID today.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  8/6/2020
  

  Richard Nixon Bears Responsibility for the Pandemic’s Child-Care Crisis

  by Anna K. Danziger Halperin

  Today’s child-care crisis may have been fueled by the outbreak, but it is not new. It has been simmering below the surface for decades and can be traced back to President Richard M. Nixon’s 1971 veto of federally funded universal child care.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/4/2020
  

  Why Are Child Care Programs Open When Schools Are Not?

  Drs. Robert Pianta and Myra Jones-Taylor expressed hope that parents’ pandemic experiences of working while juggling care and education will lead to a newfound appreciation for both elements, and the modern economy’s reliance on them.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/17/2020
  

  History Shows That We Can Solve The Child-Care Crisis — If We Want To

  by Lisa Levenstein

  Today, in nearly two-thirds of households with children, the parents are employed. In 3 out of 5 states, the cost of day care for one infant is more than tuition and fees at four-year public universities.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/19/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism

  by Helen Lewis

  When people note that Shakespeare and Newton did some of their best work while England was ravaged by the plague, there is an obvious response: Neither of them had child-care responsibilities.

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• SOURCE: RH Reality Check
  1-22-15
  

  Will Obama’s Vision of Child Care Overcome Nixon’s Legacy?

  by Carole Joffe

  In December 1971, President Richard Nixon vetoed the Economic Opportunity Amendments of 1971, primarily because the measure would have allocated some $2 billion for a Comprehensive Child Care Development Bill.