In many households where work circumstances differ widely, the pandemic has raised difficult questions of privilege and equity among family members.
He’s a certified drug and alcohol counselor who opened a sober living house at the peak of last winter’s deadly COVID-19 surge and is on-site at least six days a week.
The pandemic has changed the fabric of life in many households, especially in those where members’ work circumstances are vastly different. It has raised questions of privilege and equity within families and forced difficult conversations about responsibility and burden. The issues are big and small: health, privacy — and who does the laundry, sweeps the floors and shops for groceries.
But that still means 17.5 million people working from home and possibly bumping up against other household members who can’t: grocery store clerks and teachers, people who provide child care and those who work in restaurants, doctors, nurses, janitors, delivery drivers. Shain: “I went from doing 75% of the housework to her 25% when she was working in Burbank. Now she does 97% and I do 3%. I’m not pulling my weight.”Shain: “The last six months have been easier, for me at least. I think we’ve accepted our new roles.”The California lockdown began March 19, 2020. Jackie Nuñez and Jack Dobbrow moved in together in San Mateo two days later. They went from seeing each other a few days a week to spending every waking moment together.
When the couple first moved in together, Nuñez laid out all the household chores in an intricate Google Doc. They vowed to look at the chart every Sunday, figure out what needed to be done and split up the tasks. Their system quickly broke down. Alejandra Alarcon, right, worries about bringing the coronavirus home from her job and risking the health and livelihood of her mom, Leonila Irias, who runs Irias Family Child Care in Hawthorne.
“There’s something very scary about hearing how the coronavirus impacted very much that group — Latinas, Latinos and Black residents, more than most, right?” Alarcon said. “I am scared about my mom’s mortality.”
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