CHILDCARE MATTERS: learning lessons from lockdown
In this episode:
In recent months, many working parents have had to juggle looking after kids at home with their usual jobs. Research shows this has had a disproportionate impact on working mothers. We talk to researcher Christine Berry and Lucie Stephens from the New Economics Foundation about our reliance on childcare, the crisis now facing the sector, and how to ensure it is truly valued in the coronavirus recovery. Then Mary-Ann Stephenson from the Women’s Budget group discusses the broader economic impact of the last few months on women.
Plus singer-songwriter turned CBeebies star Nick Cope is here to talk about his Popcast!
Guests
Christine Berry (@oeufling), freelance researcher and writer
Lucie Stephens (@Maidafloat), head of co-production at the New Economics Foundation
Mary-Ann Stephenson (@maryanncv8), director of the Women’s Budget Group
Nick Cope (@nickcope4), family singer-songwriter
More info
COVID 19’s impact on women
The Guardian/Linda Scott: How coronavirus is widening the UK gender pay gap (July 2020)
The Guardian: Editorial view on pandemic’s impact on women: sound the alarm (July 2020)
Childcare during coronavirus
NEF/Lucie Stephens: COVID-19 shines a light on the fragility of our childcare system (April 2020)
TUC: Childcare needs emergency bailout to save women's jobs (June 2020)
Christine Berry: If we need childcare to reopen the economy, why is it so undervalued? (May 2020)
Christine Berry: Childcare in an Age of Coronavirus (Mar 2020)
Investing in childcare
Women’s Budget Group: A care-led recovery from coronavirus (June 2020)
NEF: A childcare infrastructure fund (June 2020)
WBG: What is gender responsive budgeting? (May 2017)