Randi Weingarten, the head of the American Federation for Teachers — the nation’s second-largest teachers union — was blasted Saturday for a tweet that not only vastly over-estimated the number of women who have left the workforce to care for and educate children in the pandemic but ignored that teacher’s unions have been instrumental in keeping kids out of classrooms.
Referencing a linked Mother Jones article, Weingarten claimed that “115% of mothers with young children left their jobs in 2020 because of childcare responsibilities,” suggesting that women were deeply and disproportionately affected by pandemic related lockdowns — so much so that more than 100% of mothers were forced to leave jobs to care for children.
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