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News Coverage of Child Care during COVID-19: Where Are Women and Gender?
Research has long observed the absence of gender in child care policy, media, and elections. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has invoked critical questions about child care and its importance to states’ economic recoveries around the world. In this research note, we analyze news coverage of child car...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562856/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000598 |
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description | Research has long observed the absence of gender in child care policy, media, and elections. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has invoked critical questions about child care and its importance to states’ economic recoveries around the world. In this research note, we analyze news coverage of child care in major Canadian daily newspapers to explore whether and how news narratives regarding child care are shifting in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, are we seeing a focus on women and gender in child care coverage amid the compounding pressures that women face in the current social and economic climate? The results of our analysis suggest that the pandemic has not shifted the conversation on child care and that current coverage principally reflects long-standing trends in child care framing. We find that gender remains systematically written out of coverage of child care, occluded by a larger focus on health-, economic-, and accessibility-related concerns about child care services. |
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spelling | pubmed-75628562020-10-16 News Coverage of Child Care during COVID-19: Where Are Women and Gender? Wallace, Rebecca Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth Politics & Gender Research Article Research has long observed the absence of gender in child care policy, media, and elections. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has invoked critical questions about child care and its importance to states’ economic recoveries around the world. In this research note, we analyze news coverage of child care in major Canadian daily newspapers to explore whether and how news narratives regarding child care are shifting in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, are we seeing a focus on women and gender in child care coverage amid the compounding pressures that women face in the current social and economic climate? The results of our analysis suggest that the pandemic has not shifted the conversation on child care and that current coverage principally reflects long-standing trends in child care framing. We find that gender remains systematically written out of coverage of child care, occluded by a larger focus on health-, economic-, and accessibility-related concerns about child care services. Cambridge University Press 2020-08-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7562856/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000598 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Wallace, Rebecca Goodyear-Grant, Elizabeth News Coverage of Child Care during COVID-19: Where Are Women and Gender? |
title | News Coverage of Child Care during COVID-19: Where Are Women and Gender? |
title_full | News Coverage of Child Care during COVID-19: Where Are Women and Gender? |
title_fullStr | News Coverage of Child Care during COVID-19: Where Are Women and Gender? |
title_full_unstemmed | News Coverage of Child Care during COVID-19: Where Are Women and Gender? |
title_short | News Coverage of Child Care during COVID-19: Where Are Women and Gender? |
title_sort | news coverage of child care during covid-19: where are women and gender? |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562856/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X20000598 |
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