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Women-dominated child and home care work is critical infrastructure that has long been devalued

Written by Mignon Duffy, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Many mothers struggled without child care during the pandemic.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

A fiery debate has erupted over the definition of “infrastructure.”

Does it mean roads, broadband and other physical structures included in the traditional meaning of infrastructure? Or should it have a broader definition that includes other important...

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Women-dominated child and home care work is critical infrastructure that has long been devalued

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