Covid has definitely impacted many people around the whole world. One big thing that is impacted is women’s rights and feminism. This connects back to our intersectionality talk because as the pandemic hit, women were almost expected to stay home and be the care takers as schools closed and children and other family members needed care. Men, in the majority have the higher paying jobs in a two income family, but once Covid happened that became more of an issue. Many Mothers and women either had to leave their jobs or were not able to work due to unemployment from places closing. Statistically, women work in care taking jobs like schools, daycares and others. Those were all shut down however. In other instances like I said when there is a family with children who need care the women will stay home to do so. This causes a lot of issues that arise in feminism because it’s almost as if times were set back 100 years. Women stayed home while men worked. This impacts the financial value of women and the codependency in many house holds. We went from bringing equality to the work force with women, to being put back to having to rely on men and being the stay at home care takers once again.
