COVID-19, Working Moms, and the Child-Care Crisis: Voices 51

The Mom Hour

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Parenting, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

With schools across the country increasingly moving in the direction of online-only attendance in the fall, many moms are asking: “How do we make this work?” While homeschool pods, cutting back hours at work and other creative solutions may be a temporary solution for some families, there are many others for whom these options are not on the table. And there’s no doubt that moms are unfairly shouldering the brunt of this crisis (as we are so often expected to do).

In this month’s Voices interview, Meagan talks with Anne Halsall, co-founder and CPO of online child-care directory Winnie; listen as they dig into issues around work, parenting, and inequality that this pandemic has uncovered—and discuss some reassuring news about the safety and availability of licensed daycare to fill some of those gaps.

LINKS MENTIONED:

Winnie.com, the company Anne co-founded
@annekate on Twitter
Anne and Meagan recently did a webinar together – check back here for a link when the recording is available to watch!

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Megan. We're two moms with eight kids between us from little to
0:05.7	grown. We're in different areas of the country and in different stages of life. But we both know that
0:10.5	motherhood's a lot easier when real moms share tips and encouragement.
0:14.0	And remind you that it's really all going to be okay.
0:16.4	We're not experts. We're parents who've been there.
0:18.6	We're not perfect. We're real.
0:20.2	Welcome to the mom hour.
0:21.6	Hi everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour. Hi everyone and welcome to the Mom Hour.
0:25.0	I'm Megan Francis here with a really important interview for our August Voices episode.
0:30.0	I'm recording this on August 2nd and at the time of this recording so many of us still don't know exactly what school is going to look like in the fall.
0:37.5	Many, many parents are finding out that school will be online only for at least the first few months of school.
0:42.6	Other parents are feeling forced into choosing between virtual options,
0:46.0	homeschooling or in-person learning in a time where there are still a lot of questions
0:50.1	around safety and community spread. And many, many moms have jobs that can't be done from home.
0:56.0	Many moms can't or just don't want to cut back their working hours or leave the workforce entirely.
1:01.0	And as so many of us learned the hard way last spring, even those of us who have the
1:05.0	option to work from home have realized that trying to juggle that with distance
1:08.3	learning is definitely not ideal. Daycare could become a really important solution for families, but concerns around safety, capacity, and cost are a big challenge.
1:18.0	My guest today is Anne Halsall, co-founder and CPO of Winnie.com, which is a service that matches working parents with child care providers.
1:25.5	She has a ton of insight about the child care landscape right now,
1:28.7	including why daycares have been able to stay open relatively safely during the pandemic and the conversation we should all be having around who bears the brunt of child care demands and costs.
1:39.0	spoiler alert moms, even though we are great at coming up with creative solutions to everything,
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