COVID school closures failed women and children and leaders on both sides must step up

Women, especially from working families and communities of color, have suffered the brunt of the past two years and the school closures that have been normalized.

From mental health to math scores to simply eating a good meal, school closures failed the kids they were supposed to protect.

Our organization has talked at length about the ways Republican officials have hurt women recently: rejecting paid family and medical leave, blocking minimum wage increases, and quashing access to reproductive health care, to name just a few. (Not to mention the undermining-trust-in-our-vaccines and attempting-to-overturn-our-elections things…) We’ll keep talking, writing, marching and even running for office until we get the change we need.