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Women-dominated child and home care work is critical infrastructure that has long been devalued

  • Written by Mignon Duffy, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Lowell
imageMany mothers struggled without child care during the pandemic.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

A fiery debate has erupted over the definition of “infrastructure.”

Does it mean roads, broadband and other physical structures included in the traditional meaning of infrastructure? Or should it have a broader definition that includes other important...

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