Mothers are leaving the workforce, erasing pandemic gains

6 danielam 3 8/13/2025, 10:09:53 PM washingtonpost.com ↗

Comments (3)

potato3732842 · 17m ago
As incomes decline relative to costs it makes sense for more people to stay home as the income is a wash compared to the cost savings of having a body at home full time to run the home.
toomuchtodo · 15m ago
It doesn't make sense if you need both incomes to survive. It just pushes the total fertility rate down faster when prospective parents realize they cannot afford childcare nor one parent to remain at home.

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-income-a-family-...

https://illumine.app/blog/how-much-childcare-costs-by-state-...

https://childcaredeserts.org/

gedy · 12m ago
Can only speak to the people I see and know around me, but many women I know don't want to work with small kids, even if daycare is available. And many women choose to delay or not to have kids so they can work. I know very few non wealthy working moms with preschool kids who like the situation.

Hell I don't want to work either ha.