Almost 40 years ago in April 1983, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a column by sisters Anne E. Ricks and Sarah Ricks calling for hospitals to provide daycare for employees’ children. They described how hospitals are hurt when employees lack child care: Workers run late or are forced to take days off, their productivity falls, and turnover rates are high.
Now, in the middle of a pandemic in which that care is more urgent than ever, Covid-19 has brought a half-century-old problem back into the spotlight. And not much has changed.
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