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Women did three times as much Child care as men during pandemic

Child care demands at home skyrocketed during the pandemic, but men and women did not split the burden equally. Women have felt many of the pandemic's worst economic effects, including billions in lost income, in large part due to increased demands on their time at home. Globally, women took on 173 additional hours of unpaid child care last year, compared to 59 additional hours for men, a study released by the Center for Global Development, a poverty non-profit, found. The gap widened in low- and middle-income countries, where women