Top 5: Women + work
The Top 5 articles for your week:
“Why Are We Worrying About Women’s Work?” (NYT)
Because Liz Bruenig calls out what we identified in the run-up to the passage of the American Rescue Plan: when it comes to pro-family policies, there’s a motiviated “anti-” crowd who wish to use public policy to carry out the culture wars of the 1960s and 70s. As Bruenig writes, “It’s likely true that policies tailored to make it harder for mothers to meet their children’s needs could persuade women to contort themselves into the workplace — social engineering by way of child privation, not unlike the Trump administration’s bet that parents would stop trying to cross the border if they lost their children in the process. Policy in that style isn’t emancipatory for women or any other person; it is profoundly inhumane.”
“The System Held” (The Atlantic)
Because Yascha Mounk argues that Western-style economies have actually been vindicated during the pandemic.
“With Love We Shall Force Our Brothers” (Plough Magazine)
Because “…if peacemaking involves emulating the Prince of Peace who bears the government on his shoulder as whip scars and a wooden cross, it’s clear that peacemaking is intrinsically tied to solidarity with whomever one’s regime is presently nailing to a cross. The justice of Christ’s cross is a justice of reconciliation, a pathway to peace for those who have been denied it.”
“A Christian Vision of Social Justice” (NYT)
Because you should read this column from David Brooks based on his interview with Esau McCaulley.
“What I Learned During the Pandemic” (Washington Post Magazine)
Because this is a short (sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes poignant) account of how children ages 6-17 felt over the last year with the major changes brought on by COVID. Liya Gebremeskel’s account is particularly moving.
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