Marshall Plan for Moms (with Reshma Saujani)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Millions of Americans lost their jobs because of the pandemic. While men have returned to their pre-pandemic level of employment, a million women are still missing from the workforce. Without access to paid maternity leave and affordable child care, women are choosing to stay home – or being forced to. It’s time for a more inclusive economic recovery. Reshma Saujani, the Founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms, has a plan to get us there. Reshma Saujani is the founder of Girls Who Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms. She’s also an author of several books, her latest is called Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think) Twitter: @reshmasaujani McKinsey - Meeting the challenge of moms’ ‘double double shift’ at home and work: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/sustainable-inclusive-growth/future-of-america/meeting-the-challenge-of-moms-double-double-shift-at-home-and-work The Business Case for Child Care: https://marshallplanformoms.com/childcare-report/ Marshall Plan for Moms https://marshallplanformoms.com Pay Up https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Pay-Up/Reshma-Saujani/9781982191573 House Resolution 121 https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/121 Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	Hey, pitchfork economics gang. We're doing another AMA asked me anything
0:06.0	episode and so if you have a question about something ideally economics related
0:12.5	leave us a voicemail by calling 731-388-9334 and Goldie and I will answer your questions.
0:24.3	Employment has not fully recovered for women since the start of the pandemic.
0:28.2	Child care is not a personal problem. It's an economic issue and we have a child care
0:33.2	crisis. It's unavailable and it's unaffordable. Women lost their jobs relative to men at a
0:38.0	three-to-one ratio. 100% effectively of the kids having to stay home explains a lot of that.
0:44.0	It is a abject failure that the government has failed out airlines and does not fail that moms.
0:49.6	From the home offices of civic ventures in downtown Seattle, this is pitchfork economics,
0:59.6	with Nick Hanauer, the best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.
1:08.2	There are some good news and some bad news about the post-pandemic economy, Nick.
1:21.2	What you want first, you want the good news? Always give me the bad news first.
1:25.8	Long, you know what, I'm going to give you the good news first. The good news is that employment
1:31.9	has fully recovered, in fact, past full recovery and the bad news is that that's only for men.
1:40.6	That employment has not fully recovered for women since the start of the pandemic.
1:44.8	Yeah, and I think the ratio I heard was women lost their jobs relative to men at a three-to-one
1:52.0	ratio. And that, of course, 100% effectively of the kids having to stay home explains a lot of
2:00.3	that. And still, child care is in crisis across the country and women in our society,
2:10.0	mothers in our society in particular are taking the brunt of that.
2:13.5	Right. We already had an uneven and unfair division of labor before the pandemic,
2:20.8	in which women were picked up much more of the responsibility for child care and for
2:26.2	housework and so forth. And since the pandemic, after the temporary closures of school,
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