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Could COVID-19 widen the workplace gender gap?

Delores Leonard (R) helps her daughter Erin with her homework at the breakfast table before heading to work at a McDonald's Restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, September 25, 2014. Leonard, a single mother raising two daughters, has been working at McDonald's for seven years and has never made more than minimum wage.  Picture taken September 25, 2014.   REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EAAH1LAM01

Throughout the pandemic, women have taken on a greater share of childcare and domestic duties. Image: REUTERS/Jim Young

Ellen Wulfhorst
Chief Correspondent of the Americas, Thompson Reuters Foundation
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