Working parents faced additional childcare challenges when daycares closed or schools went online due to the pandemic. According to the Census Bureau, normally about 70% of mothers and 90% of fathers living with school-age children work. By April of last year, 55% of mothers and 76% of fathers were working, shows the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey.
As of February, that figure had risen to 65% for mothers and 85% for fathers. That left 10 million mothers and 3.7 million fathers not working — about 1.5 million more mothers and 900,000 more fathers than a year before. How has the pandemic affected working parents and childcare?
