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Is the coronavirus crisis taking women back to the 1950s?

13 mins | Jun 19, 2020
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“The onus is usually on me when it comes to home schooling which I am managing alongside my work.” In the wake of the pandemic, decades of gender equality advances are under threat as women juggle work and childcare, while some employers target them for redundancy. Emma Jacobs and Laura Noonan investigate for the Financial Times.

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