The pandemic clarified which jobs are essential – and a takeaway is that many of them are also what is often considered “women’s work.” Type Media Center reporting fellow Sarah Jaffe joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how Covid lockdowns made it clear how much Americans rely on care workers – and how little we value them monetarily. Her article published in The Baffler is headlined “Who Cares?”
(This show originally aired on May 27, 2021.)
