Women did three times as much childcare as men during coronavirus pandemic

Women took on 173 additional hours of unpaid child care last year, compared to 59 additional hours for men, study says.

Child care demands at home skyrocketed during the pandemic, but men and women did not split the burden equally. 

Globally, women took on 173 additional hours of unpaid child care last year, compared to 59 additional hours for men, a study released Friday by the Center for Global Development, a poverty non-profit, found. The gap widened in low- and middle-income countries, where women cared for children for more than three times as many hours as men did.

Women have felt many of the pandemic's worst economic effects, including an estimated $800 billion in lost income, in large part due to