CCF Media Brief – April 15, 2021

CCF MEDIA BRIEF – APRIL 15, 2021

CCF EXPERTS IN THE NEWS:

1. ‘Mommy Juice’ Might Be a Pandemic Stress-Reliever, But It’s Killing Women
2. Women are drinking more since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic
3. Why We Still Think Caregiving Isn’t a Job
4. When an Estranged Relative Dies, Some Face Grief, Regret and Relief
5. How faith, family — and timing — shape Mitt Romney’s efforts to change the child tax credit
6. Friendship is a place of sacrifice—and sanctification

NEW WORK BY CCF EXPERTS*

7. COVID-19, Coronavirus-Related Anxiety, and Changes in Women’s Alcohol Use

NEW ON THE CCF BLOG:

8. The Shortest Distance is Across Not Around: Bridging Chasms in Women’s Health Care and Racial Justice to Achieve Maternal Health Equity
9. The Pandemic Reveals: Home, Work and Health Care Disadvantages for Women of Color

OTHER NEWS:

10. What Women Need to Know About the Covid Vaccine
11. The Secret to Getting More Women in Leadership: Men
12. Our conversation about anti-trans laws is broken
13. It’s Official: The Average American Family Has 2 Absurdly Stressed Out Parents
14. How to Help Your Adolescent Think About the Last Year
15. F.D.A. Will Allow Abortion Pills by Mail During the Pandemic
16. Ten economic facts on how mothers spend their time
17. One weird trick to fix our broken child care system
18. How Biden’s infrastructure plan could leave child care behind

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1. ‘Mommy Juice’ Might Be a Pandemic Stress-Reliever, But It’s Killing Women
   https://www.lx.com/mental-health/mommy-juice-might-be-a-pandemic-stress-reliever-but-its-killing-women/34596/
   More women are dying of alcohol-related liver complications as drinking surges during the pandemic, researchers say. The results are raising questions about how alcohol is marketed to women and if help is accessible.

2. Women are drinking more since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic
   https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/women-are-drinking-more-since-the-beginning-of-the-covid-19-pandemic/
   A new study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Gynaecology and Women’s Health has found that women are drinking more than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic.

3. Why We Still Think Caregiving Isn’t a Job
   https://www.damemagazine.com/2021/04/06/why-we-still-think-caregiving-isnt-a-job/
   Are women more naturally suited to love and nurture? Are they more naturally suited to sacrifice their interests and autonomy for the good of their homes and families? A global crisis has made glaringly apparent that, whether they’re naturally suited or not, they’re expected to be.

4. When an Estranged Relative Dies, Some Face Grief, Regret and Relief
   https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/well/family/grief-family-estrangement.html
   Some have regrets over unfinished business. For others, the end of an unhappy and complicated relationship just comes as a relief.

5. How faith, family — and timing — shape Mitt Romney’s efforts to change the child tax credit
   https://www.deseret.com/2021/4/2/22356886/how-birth-rate-covid-help-drive-mitt-romney-family-security-act-to-bipartisan-support
   His Family Security Act, which would pay parents a monthly stipend as they raise their children, has united an unusually diverse swath of experts and politicians

6. Friendship is a place of sacrifice—and sanctification
   https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2021/04/08/big-friendship-review-sacrifice-sanctification-240390
   There is a way of praising friendships that unintentionally undermines them.

7. COVID-19, Coronavirus-Related Anxiety, and Changes in Women’s Alcohol Use
   https://juniperpublishers.com/jgwh/pdf/JGWH.MS.ID.556057.pdf

8. The Shortest Distance is Across Not Around: Bridging Chasms in Women’s Health Care and Racial Justice to Achieve Maternal Health Equity
   https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/04/13/the-shortest-distance-is-across-not-around-bridging-chasms-in-womens-health-care-and-racial-justice-to-achieve-maternal-health-equity/

9. The Pandemic Reveals: Home, Work and Health Care Disadvantages for Women of Color
   https://thesocietypages.org/ccf/2021/04/06/the-pandemic-reveals-home-work-and-health-care-disadvantages-for-women-of-color/
   What do we miss when we don’t bring an intersectional lens to analyses of the pandemic?

10. What Women Need to Know About the Covid Vaccine
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/well/live/women-covid-19-vaccine.html
    Can it affect mammograms or the timing of fertility treatments? What side effects should you look out for? Experts weigh in.

11. The Secret to Getting More Women in Leadership: Men
    https://www.newsweek.com/2021/04/16/secret-getting-more-women-leadership-men-1581437.html
    In the aftermath of the #MeToo movement, the status of women in the workplace has taken on renewed importance and urgency.

12. Our conversation about anti-trans laws is broken
    https://www.vox.com/identities/22358864/trans-issues-sports-health-care-bills-laws-arkansas-alabama-montana-south-dakota
    Let’s stop pretending that bills denying trans kids health care are something other than bigotry that will get children killed.

13. It’s Official: The Average American Family Has 2 Absurdly Stressed Out Parents
    https://www.fatherly.com/news/study-average-american-family-struggles-with-work-life-balance/
    If you think balancing work and family life is stressful, you’re in good company.

14. How to Help Your Adolescent Think About the Last Year
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/health/pandemic-middle-school-mental-health.html
    Hint: It’s not a “lost year.” Also, the screen time with friends? It’s good for their mental health.

15. F.D.A. Will Allow Abortion Pills by Mail During the Pandemic
    https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/health/covid-abortion-pills-mailed.html
    The agency said it would stop enforcing a rule requiring women to get the first of two pills in person at a medical clinic or hospital.

16. Ten economic facts on how mothers spend their time
    https://www.brookings.edu/essay/ten-economic-facts-on-how-mothers-spend-their-time/
    The COVID-19 pandemic is taking a toll.

17. One weird trick to fix our broken child care system
    https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22360152/child-care-free-public-funding
    Early education in the US is endlessly convoluted, and a massive expense for lower- and middle-class families. What if the solution were as straightforward as making child care a “good” job?

18. How Biden’s infrastructure plan could leave child care behind
    https://www.vox.com/22362607/child-care-biden-infrastructure-plan-bill
    America’s child care system is broken. But Biden isn’t tackling it — yet.

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