Gender Inequities Are Deepening During COVID-19

WUNC | By Anita Rao,

Published September 3, 2020 at 4:14 PM EDT

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For months, families have been quarantining together during the coronavirus crisis. The pandemic has forced parents and partners to rethink everything, from division of household chores and childcare duties to work-from-home needs and whether or not a job that cannot be performed remotely is even worth keeping, if childcare is unavailable or unaffordable.

Host Anita Rao and Lisa Levenstein, director of the Women and Gender Studies Program at UNC Greensboro, talk about COVID-19's potential long-term impact on gender inequities.

Women already assumed disproportionate responsibility for domestic labor before the pandemic. COVID-19 has only exacerbated that divide. Host Anita Rao talks to Lisa Levenstein, director of the UNC Greensboro’s Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program.

Anita Rao

Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.

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Stacia Brown

Stacia Brown comes to WUNC from Washington, DC, where she was a producer for WAMU’s daily news radio program, 1A. She’s the creator and host of two podcasts, The Rise of Charm City and Hope Chest. Her audio projects have been featured on Scene on Radio, a podcast of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University; BBC 4’s Short Cuts; and American Public Radio’s Terrible, Thanks for Asking.

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