Single parents with dependent children—eight out of ten of them women—were far more likely than others to lose work at the height of the pandemic and are far more likely to still be out of work now.
Social Sciences
Mar 29, 2021
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Parents have faced unprecedented stress during the pandemic as they care for children while juggling paid work from home.
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Nov 25, 2020
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Brittany Goddard's final semester at Howard University isn't the dream ending she imagined in Washington, D.C.
Education
Aug 10, 2020
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While there is little doubt that COVID-19 will have lasting impacts on health and the economy, a group of researchers is bringing attention to the effects the pandemic could have on the careers of scientific researchers. ...
Social Sciences
Jul 28, 2020
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While the world has been thrown into chaos by COVID-19, gender inequality has survived the pandemic intact, according to a report from Oxford's Department of Sociology, with women still carrying out most housework and childcare, ...
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Jun 4, 2020
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,Social policy and popular culture promote the two-parent nuclear family as an ideal structure for raising successful, healthy children. But the reality of family life in America looks very different from that: Half of all ...
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Jan 16, 2020
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Given that one in four children now grow up in one-parent homes and that 42% of marriages end in divorce you might expect prejudice against single parents to be a thing of the past. Yet a 2014 poll found that 75% of single ...
Social Sciences
Dec 4, 2019
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Australians like to think we live in a country of the fair go, where anyone with the talent and willingness to work hard can succeed.
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Sep 30, 2019
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The College Board recently revealed a new "adversity score" that it plans to use as part of the SAT in order to reflect students' social and economic background.
Social Sciences
May 22, 2019
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Children living in food-insecure households are more likely to attend school on Fridays if they're participating in a food-distribution program that provides them with backpacks of meals for the weekend, researchers at the ...
Social Sciences
May 10, 2019
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