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Coronavirus
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Flight attendants are ‘hurting’ as busy holiday travel season looms
Flight attendants, most of whom are women, prepare to redouble safety efforts in what is expected to be the peak period of air travel since the pandemic began.
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Survey shows COVID-19 is disproportionately harming women's mental health
About 57 percent of women said their mental health had been negatively affected, compared to 44 percent of men.
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Majority of voters support Biden’s plan for child care and at-home care, new poll finds
About 88 percent of voters said they support the 10-year proposal that introduces free pre-kindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds, boosts pay for care workers and adds an estimated 3 million care jobs.
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In a pandemic holiday, women still do it all
The load of invisible labor is especially high for women during the holidays. Will the pandemic exacerbate it — or finally liberate them from it?
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Of course women of color were among the first to get vaccinated
Black and Latina women have been on the frontlines of fighting COVID-19. Across the country, they are now the first to be inoculated against it.
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Pregnant health care workers could get Pfizer vaccine after FDA panel votes for “emergency authorization”
If the FDA accepts that recommendation, health care workers — who are mostly women — could start getting immunizations within days.
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Biden’s pick for CDC director hailed for gender equity commitment
Rochelle Walensky, who heads the infectious disease unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, will shape how the government distributes coronavirus vaccines.
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Pregnant health care workers a question for early COVID-19 immunization
None of the vaccines have yet been tested during pregnancy, creating a conundrum for the advisory committee recommending who gets immunized first.
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The pandemic has left mothers struggling to feed their kids
School closures and the struggling economy have created a national hunger crisis — and experts say it will only get worse as the pandemic deepens this winter.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren to introduce $8 billion relief bill to help underserved Americans during pandemic
If passed, the COVID Community Care Act would funnel emergency funding to Black, Latinx and Native American communities that have been especially hard hit by the pandemic.