Flowers and candy are nice

But the pandemic shows us women need jobs, medical care, child care

Women have always made impossible decisions (“Do I work late on this project? Or go home to have dinner with the family?”), and as with so many other societal issues, the pandemic has only made things worse. Women are dying more, losing their jobs more, and looking at what might be a permanent mark left by the pandemic.

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