Lately I've been fantasizing about what workplace and public policies would totally be the norm by now if men were forced to be primarily responsible for virtual school. Let's start with...
Direct childcare subsidies for all workers with children under 18 to assist with additional costs from all major companies
ability to reduce hours without reducing salary
widespread and easy to implement job sharing with no hit to your benefits or seniority
Overall celebration, praise, and social rewards to taking on this heroic and patriotic effort of keeping our future leaders safe and well educated. Shopping discounts? Cutting lines? rounds of spontaneous public applause?
suggest your own ideas! Let's together realize that our total abandonment by our society is a choice, and not inevitable. Something could be done to make this situation much more livable, and the reason it's not is sexism and mothers' lack of economic and political power.