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Fall's Looming Child-Care Crisis

This article by Katherine Mangan in the Chronicle of Higher Education shares the experiences of women faculty caregivers and the issues that they are facing with child care this fall. "As the clock ticks toward the start of the semester, dozens of faculty and staff members who responded to inquiries from The Chronicle wrote that they worry about how they’ll teach their kindergartners to read, keep their teenagers from ditching their textbooks for video games, and meet the needs of college students who may be emotionally fragile this fall. The vast majority of the responses came from women."